Discipline and Power is an intellectual, cultural, and social analysis of the ways in which universities successfully transformed a set of values, encoded in the concept of "liberal education," into a licensing system for a national elite. From the mid-1870's until the rise of t…
"The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Fami…
"In this expose, Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to reveal how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations and 'think tanks' in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced …
Best-selling author, Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating expose of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy. In this brilliantly researched expose, 'communic.
"This study of Edgewood Academy - a private, elite college preparatory high school - examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American socie…
"This study of Edgewood Academy - a private, elite college preparatory high school - examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American socie…
The authors deal with comparative aspects of contemporary authoritarianism.Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several "old democracies"but their main successes take place in several states which departed fromdictatorial regimes recently. The book contains case-studies of …
