The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great C…
Framing the market : wine in Britain, 1800-1914 -- Champagne, 1800-1860 -- "A smart agent and lavish expenditure"? : the distribution and marketing of champagne, 1860-76 -- "Taste changes very fast" : consumers and consumption, 1860-75 -- Votaries of fashion? : changing consumer…
"In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes …
"Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world l…
Collection of 13 essays examine Asian and European experiences with developing national and city policy agendas around cultural and creative industries. The cultural and creative industries have become key drivers for urban regeneration and global repositioning of cities across …
State theory and capitalist democracy -- Imperialist restructuring and global capitalism -- From neoliberalism to political crisis -- Transforming class politics and the state. "It is often remarked that critical - and especially Marxist - state theory began to lose its central…
