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Peasants and Proletarians: The Struggles of Third World Workers
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Cohen, Peter C. W. Gutkind, Phyllis Brazier
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers’ struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries. It analyses the nature of class alliances forged in the countryside and ...
Polish Paradoxes
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanisław Gomułka, Antony Polonsky
August 01, 2025
Paradox is no new feature of Polish political life. A Slavnation, fiercely Catholic, yet looking towards the non-Slavonic, largely non-Catholic west; a people whose sense of nationhood is uniquely strong, yet who have spent much of their history under foreign rule. Poland remains headline news, and...
Rebels in the Name of the Tsar
1st Edition
By Daniel Field
August 01, 2025
In Rebels in the Name of the Tsar (originally published in 1989), Daniel Field explores one of the most puzzling phenomena of late imperial Russia: the devotion of the common people to the person of the Tsar. His comprehensive and engaging study addresses the question of “naïve monarchism” from the...
Rethinking Transition: Educational Innovation and the Transition to Adult Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Varlaam
August 01, 2025
In the early 1970s, nearly three-quarters of 16–19-year-olds were employed. First published in 1984, Rethinking Transition comprises a collection of papers based on the evaluation of a group of projects concerned with the problems faced by young people in the transition from school to working life....
Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change
1st Edition
By John Harriss
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor has provided a general introduction and passages that link the papers, alerting the student to rival theoretical ...
Senegal: A Study of French Assimilation Policy
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published as a revised edition in 1967, this book covers an aspect of Senegalese history of great importance not only for the student of French Colonial policy but also for those interested in the development of nationalism in French-speaking Africa. Senegal was the only French colony in...
Social Security and Social Control
1st Edition
By Hartley Dean
August 01, 2025
First published in 1991, Social Security and Social Control (now with a new preface by the author) takes a fresh look at social security policy and demonstrates how the disciplinary effects of social security and relief programmes are more extensive, pervasive, and subtle than is commonly supposed....
Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946–73
1st Edition
By J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy, G.P. Redman
August 01, 2025
First published in 1983, Strikes in Post-War Britain provides the first systematic long-run examination of official strike statistics since the war. It is based on a wealth of new material and analysis. The overall strike pattern is first compared with the relevant data on economic activity ...
Taiwan's Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era
1st Edition
By Martin L. Lasater, Peter Kien-Hong Yu
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 2000, Taiwan’s Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era analyses the many domestic and international factors comprising Taiwan’s security situation in the late 1990s and early 21st Century. The security of Taiwan remains of international strategic concern, and the military ...
The Development of African Drama
1st Edition
By Michael Etherton
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but ...
The Evolution of a Community: A Study of Dagenham After Forty Years
1st Edition
By Peter Willmott
August 01, 2025
In earlier studies, Peter Willmott and other investigators had documented the social problems of new housing estates – the loneliness, the tensions, the disruption of family and neighbourhood ties. But how far are such troubles transitory? What kind of life would develop in communities like these ...
The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England
1st Edition
By Neville Kirk
August 01, 2025
The post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic restabilisation in his book The Growth of ...