Craig R. Colder & Maria A. Gartstein 
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The Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of a new ‘Morning in America’ encoded …

This is Volume X of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1961 this is the second edition of a study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, looking at the areas of …

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sc …

This book presents the concerns, visions and struggles of women in Chiapas, Mexico in the context of the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). The book is organized around thr …

In The Abolitionists (a companion volume to The Shaking of the Foundations) Ronald Fletcher turns his attention to those critics who have advocated the abolition of the family. Blaming the strength o …

This is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in e …

This is Volume X of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1948, this study uses Middlesbrough in the North East of England as a basis of research into the new Town …

This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization. …

This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse …

We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to ”meaningless” modern lives. This important book reveals the cu …