Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain 9781447311300, 9781447311294

Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan 9781501719912

Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book d

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Contested Britain: Brexit, Austerity and Agency 9781529205015

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the

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"Getting By": Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia 9780801456220

How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minor

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Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary Studies of Austerity 9781447330530

Tabloid headlines such as ‘Anti-social Feral Youth,’ ‘Vile Products of Welfare in the UK’ and ‘One in Four Adolescents i

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Popular culture and working–class taste in Britain, 1930–39: A round of cheap diversions? 9781847793126

This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing

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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture 9781784536640, 9781786720924, 9781786730923

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Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600 1501752146, 9781501752148

"This book analyzes the way swords were collected, used, shared, and valued by warrior elites in France and Britain

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Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600–1600 9781501752148

Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature,

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Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9780300245424

A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Br

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Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain 9781447327165

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore

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