This is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the…
A study of the Australian ruling class and of how class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically.
"A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic …
Pierre Rosanvallon entwirft eine bisher noch fehlende kohärente Theorie des Populismus. Er untersucht seine Attraktivität als Lösung für gegenwärtige Probleme, entfaltet seine Geschichte und unterzieht ihn einer gründlichen Kritik. Daraus resultierend skizziert er einen Alternat…
"In William L. Andrews's magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclo…
"Some people earn success. Others buy it. Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are given the best teachers, the …
Das Buch ist eine gut verständliche Einführung in das Werk von Karl Marx, mitsamt seiner Nachwirkungen bis heute. Sein Werk wird dabei nicht als ein vergangenes behandelt, sondern als ein theoretischer wie politischer Ansatz, der noch immer – oder heute erst recht – auf provokat…
