Uses government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories to examine the complex inner workings of club life and the variety of networks (social, ideological, and logistical) that permeated them.
This work presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia. Often a target of intellectual scorn or literary ridicule, the author reorients attention towards the complex inner workings of club life, while at the same time arguing for clubs as key contributo…
Revealing fascinating facts about some of the most talked-about covert societies, including the Mafia, the Skull and Bones and the Ku Klux Klan, this book exposes the truth about the subcultures that made their mark on some of the most important events in the nation's history an…
"Grounded in extensive historical research, this eye-opening survey reveals the long-undervalued role secret societies have played in American history."--Amazon.com.
Mary Anne feels she never gets to do what she wants to do, but Logan takes the idea of seeing less of each other the wrong way.
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early …
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature the Late Victorian landscape in London, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world. The wealthy men of the British upper classes have often been segregated to the re…
"In this first academic history of the famed gentlemen's clubs of London, Amy Milne-Smith reveals these institutions at the height of their power and influence at the turn of the twentieth century, paying special attention to how clubmen defined masculinity and status for their …
This practical guide demonstrates how to sponsor a successful, student-led book club for grades k through 12 that is fun, easy-to-implement, and encourages reading. Establishing a book club for children and young people that's self-sustaining and successful long-term is a challe…
Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from wo…
Women, clubs, and associations in Britain
by ProQuest (Firm), Gordon, Peter, Doughan, David
