Slavery & Emancipation
"The Trader, the Owner, the Slave"Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
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The story of slavery embraces the lives of many millions of people: Africans, Europeans and Americans. This book focuses on the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement - a trader, an owner, and a slave. Together they provide an account of slavery at its peak and how it was finally brought to its knees. With 8 pp b/w plates. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 223 x 143 mm. Weight: 576g.
Author: Walvin, James
ISBN: 0224061445
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
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"The Trader, the Owner, the Slave"Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
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Examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement - a trader, an owner and a slave, this book offers an interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807. With 8 pages b/w plates; 1 map. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 199 x 130 mm. Weight: 244g.
Author: Walvin, James
ISBN: 0712667636
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Slavery & Emancipation
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"Selling Olga"Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance
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"Phoenix Paperback Series" series; An expose of international human trafficking by a prize-winning author. New ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 198 x 130 mm. Weight: 270g.
Author: Waugh, Louisa
ISBN: 0753822067
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Slavery & Emancipation
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"Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838"
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Although much has been written about Scottish involvement in slavery, the contribution of Scots to the abolition of black slavery has not yet been sufficiently recognised. This book starts with a Virginian slave seeking his freedomin Scotland in 1756 and ends with the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indian colonies in 1838. With 8 illus. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 425g.
Author: Whyte, Iain
ISBN: 0748624333
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Slavery & Emancipation
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"Approaches to Class Analysis"
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This book suveys six different approaches to the analysis of class, exploring the range of views on this important topic. With 3 tables. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 80g.
Author: (Wright, Erik Olin, ed.)
ISBN: 0521603811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"Caste and Democratic Politics in India"
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"Anthem South Asian Studies" series; No understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. First edition,. Paperback, 450 pages. Size: 240 x 161 mm. Weight: 635g.
Author: (Shah, Gyanshyam, ed.)
ISBN: 1843310864
Publisher: Anthem Press
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"Changing Classes"Stratification and Mobility in Post-Industrial Societies
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"Sage Studies in International Sociology" series; This study aims to provide the key to understanding the new class structure of post-industrial societies with their changing processes of social stratification and mobility. The treatment is interdisciplinary, connecting issues of welfare, stratification and political economy. With tables, figures, bibliography, indexes. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 431g.
Author: (Esping-Andersen, Gosta, ed.)
ISBN: 0803988974
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1993 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"Class"
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"Oxford Readers" series; The concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. Can class viably explain the present? How did concepts of class develop? This book contains writings, which provide a balanced survey of thought on class, starting from Marx and Weber onwards. With bibliography. Paperback, 484 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 479g.
Author: (Joyce, Patrick, ed.)
ISBN: 0192892525
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 1995 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Social Classes
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"Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World"
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"New Horizons in Islamic Studies" series; History of intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the 20th century. This book provides diachronic analysis of different forms of communication, learning, and authority. It presents cases with historically and geographically different background, disclosing commonalities, similarities and intellectual echoes through its comparative approach. Hardback, 352 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: (Dudoignon, Stephane A., ed.)
ISBN: 0415368359
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"The New Chinese City"Globalization and Market Reform
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"Studies in Urban and Social Change" series; Urbanization and urban development are the focus of this account which introduces readers to the changes now taking place in Chinese cities. Its approach links the visible changes in urban life to changes in the larger political economy of China. With 35. Paperback, 312 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 477g.
Author: (Logan, John, ed.)
ISBN: 0631229485
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"The New Rich in China"Future Rulers, Present Lives
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Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and lifestyle, this book investigates the political, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the rich in China, the similarities and differences to similar phenomenon elsewhere and the consequences of the rich for China itself. With 2 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 482g.
Author: (Goodman, David, ed.)
ISBN: 0415455650
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Social Classes
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"Outsiders?"The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic and Social Progress in Latin America
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"David Rockefeller/ Inter-American Development Bank" series; The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean. The first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda. With col. illustrations. 2008. Paperback, 300 pages. Size: 229 x 174 mm. Weight: 552g.
Author: (Marquez, Gustavo, ed.)
ISBN: 1597820598
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"Rethinking Class"Cultures, Identities and Lifestyles
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Advancing debates in in class analysis the book draws on current theoretical debates in sociology and considers the implications of the cultural turn for the study of class. With illustrations,. Paperback, 248 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 310g.
Author: (Devine, Fiona, ed.)
ISBN: 0333968956
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Social Classes
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"Unequal Chances"Family Background and Economic Success
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Addresses questions such as: Is the United States the land of equal opportunity or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? With 18 line illus. 64 tables.. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 571g.
Author: (Bowles, Samuel, ed.)
ISBN: 0691119309
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Classes
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"Equality"From Theory to Action
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Integrating normative and empirical issues and applying a common framework to a wide range of contemporary inequalities, this work argues for egalitarian changes in the economy, politics, law, education and research and for innovative political strategies in order to achieve aims. With illustrations. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 415g.
Author: Baker, John Lynch, Kathleen Cantillon, Sara Walsh, Judy
ISBN: 1403944296
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Social Classes
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