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Bureaucrats and Beggars : French Social Policy in the Age of the Enlightenment
Thomas McStay Adams
Hardcover - $226.95
In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In t ...
Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? : Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present
Galal A. Amin
Paperback - $30.95
This delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s
The Bride Revealed : An Intimate Look Behind the Wedding Veil
Leslie Barton
Hardcover - $24.95
The otherworldly weirdness of wearing a wedding gown and veil. The multi-generational "getting ready" ritual shared with female friends and family members. Seeing herself in the mirror before the processional music starts. Unanticipated snags and mis ...
Peasant Organisations and the Democratisation Process in Africa
Micheline Van Der Beken
Paperback - $80.95
What are the issues shaping contemporary African peasant movements? Are they fundamentally democratic or anti-democratic? Are they defensive and local in their organization and aspirations or should they be seen as taking a leading role in a wider pr ...
The End of Ideology : On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"
Daniel Bell
Paperback - $43.95
Named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell ...
Cleveland Food Memories : A Nostalgic Look Back at Great Food We Ate, the People Who Made It, and the Places Where We Bought It
Gail Bellamy
Paperback - $27.95
Remember when food was local? Cleveland companies made it, and local people sold it and ran the restaurants where we ate it. Food makes powerful memories. Mention Hough Bakery and see how quickly we Clevelanders start to drool over just the thought o ...
Complicating Categories : Gender, Class, Race, and Ethnicity
Eileen Boris
Paper Textbook - $68.95
This volume deals with the question of inequality through race, class and gender. Most studies only concern themselves with either class and gender, or with the combination of race or gender. What happens if we throw all three concepts into the analy ...