4e de couv.: Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mau…
"Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burm…
This fascinating book uses biographical fragments to shed new light on colonial life and convictism in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean.
This book looks systematically at the history of the 'underclass' in Britain and the USA over the past 100 years, providing new insights on contemporary debates about behaviour, poverty and welfare reform.
This book looks systematically at the history of the 'underclass' in Britain and the USA over the past 100 years, providing new insights on contemporary debates about behaviour, poverty and welfare reform.
Who are those at the bottom of society? There has been much discussion in recent years, on both Left and Right, about the existence of an alleged ''underclass'' in both Britain and the USA. It has been claimed this group lives outside the mainstream of society, is characterised …
"The sound of parenthood is the sigh." So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the author's experiences of growing up and struggling with demons; Werner's shows how old dem…
This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.
