"At once a book about Oxford and Heidelberg universities and about the character of European society on the eve of the World War I, Our Friend "The Enemy" challenges the idea that pre-1914 Europe was bound to collapse. Weber brings Britain and Germany's preeminent universities a…
"Presents a searing indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends, and offers a powerful vision for a constructive alternative rooted in the politics of solidarity."--Page 4 of cover.
The Mormon church today is led by an elite dynasty of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are related to current or past church authorities, who meet in private; neither their deliberations nor the church's finances are available for public review. Public relations spokesme…
by Curchin, Leonard A., (Leonard Andrew)
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"Local aristocracies were crucial to the administrative and social assimilation of provincial communities in the Roman world. Leonard Curchin focuses on local political élites in the Iberian Peninsula, providing the first comprehensive and up-to-date prosopographical catalogue o…
Local aristrocracies were crucial to the administrative and social assimilation of provincial communities in the Roman world. Leonard Curchin focuses on local political élites in the Iberian Peninsula, providing the first comprehensive and up-to-date prosopographical catalogue o…
Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pre…
The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700, far more often in office than their arch-rivals the Tories. With members such as Charles James Fox, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and Lord Byron, its gambling, loose-living, drinking an…
In this substantially revised second edition of a classic text, Tom Bottomore reconsiders elite theory in the light of recent studies. He examines its role in relation to class structures, and considers the prospects for a more equal society.
In this substantially revised second edition of a classic text, Tom Bottomore reconsiders élite theory in the light of recent studies. He examines its role in relation to class structures, and considers the prospects for a more equal society.
