Thompson shows how the public houses provided a setting in which Philadelphians from all walks of life revealed their characters and ideas as nowhere else. He takes the reader into the cramped confines of the colonial bar room, describing the friendships, misunderstandings, and …
'Twas Honest old Noah first planted the VineAnd mended his morals by drinking its Wine.--from a drinking song by Benjamin FranklinThere were, Peter Thompson notes, some one hundred and fifty synonyms for inebriation in common use in colonial Philadelphia and, on the eve of the R…
""Greek drama demands a story of origins," writes Karen Bassi in Acting Like Men. Abandoning the search for ritual and autochthonous origins of Greek drama, Bassi argues for a more secular and less formalist approach to the emergence of theatrical production in ancient Greece. T…
"Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this distinction should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is widely held, for in…
Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that …
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This study explores how in recent years the Russian people have withdrawn their time and energy from public activities controlled by the state, and turned more to private life. Gorbachev's reforms, it is argued, are in part an official reaction to this trend.
A major reassessment of the place of the propertied class in 18th-century England, revealing a society in which the middle class increasingly enforced its social priorities, vested interests, and ideological preoccupations. The book should be of interest to students of politics …
"This ambitious, wide-ranging work shows how national economic prosperity and government expansion in Mexico during the 1970's transformed a relatively closed peasant community into a more outwardly connected, socially differentiated society marked by dissension and overt confli…
Here, Sennett writes of the tension between the public and private realms in which we live, arguing that different types of behaviour and activity are appropriate in each. He believes that the barrier between these realms has been eroded, leaving man with little idea of his role…
This book identifies certain critical moments in the history of contemporary India. These events concern Partition, sati, minority rights, the Bhopal industrial disaster, the nature of the Indian state, and various socio-legal issues. Veena Das redescribes these events and their…
