"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 …
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…
"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 …
"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…
"Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which …
