Recent Arrivals from House of Our Own Books

Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. This book examines the relationship between Scottish poverty, social class, politics, and the origins of the Welfare State; it shows how changing material expectations led to popular demands for a drastic overhaul of the existing welfare system, with a detailed analysis of the evolution and downfall of the Scottish Poor Law; includes portraits… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 2011. This book is the third in a trilogy of studies by the author of race and imperialism in British culture from about 1800 to the modern era; this volume focuses on various contradictions inherent in racist and imperialist ideology by examining racial stereotypes in Victorian literature and culture that helped to justify British… Read more about this item

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: University of Washington Press, 1985. This is a study of the inner world of Chinese children who became political activists in the People's Republic, where the Communist Party's political teachings shaped their social attitudes and psychology; it describes in detail the personality development of four subjects, comparing and contrasting them at each stage of their childhood and… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Merit Publishers, 1968. First published in 1936, this is a reprint of Trotsky's analysis of the political and social crisis in France in the mid-1930s, from the fascist riots of 1934 to the mass strike in 1936, re-published in 1968 at the time of the student protests and the mass strikes (red cloth with gold… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1986. This book attempts to clarify the relations between knowledge and power by grounding them in the institutions of professionalism in the United States; it provides an analysis of the crucial dimensions of professional power: expertise, credentialism, and autonomy (black covers with silver lettering on spine; white pictorial dust jacket with red &… Read more about this item

Urbana, IL, U.S.A.: University of Illinois Press, 1991. In this book the author argues, not that Virginia Woolf is a postmodern writer, but that postmodern assumptions about art can account for her narrative innovations and feminist politics better than conventional modernist and feminist approaches to her works; in rethinking many of the prominent aesthetic and critical positions of her… Read more about this item

Athens, GA, U.S.A.: Ohio University Press, 1976. This collection of essays on political and social themes is a supplement to an earlier anthology, History and Truth; the primary concern of the essays in this volume is the question of what it means to be human in a world dominated by oppressive governments, large bureaucracies, and multi-national corporations; the essays are… Read more about this item

The Hague, Netherlands: W. Van Hoeve Publishers, 1969. This book includes articles by scholars of Balinese studies, originally published in Dutch, and is a supplement to and continuation of a previous volume, Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual; the first six articles deal with aspects of traditional Balineses culture, the last two with cultural changes (red cloth with gold… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1990. In this book the author traces the history of changes in official discourse in a series of major South African commission reports on the "Native Question" in order to examine how a repressive and exploitative regime used officially approved discourse to legitimate itself (black cloth with gold lettering on spine; green… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Berghahn Books, 2008. This is a political history of the emergence of social anthropology as an intellectual discipline in Britain between the 1930s and 1960s; it examines the role that institutions and resources of the British and Imperial state played in forstering the autonomy of the new social science; it tells the story of a… Read more about this item

Oxford, England, U.K.: Berg, 2004. This book contains the author's three lectures on Kinship and Social Organization delivered in 1913 at the London School of Economics and first published the following year, and his article The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry published in 1910 in The Sociological Review; also included are an introduction by Raymond Firth and two commentaries on… Read more about this item

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia; it argues that the most important economic factor affecting women's status is the control of property; that women's lack of rights to property, particularly land, explains their economic, social, and political subordination; it examines women's resistance to gender inequality, and… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1969. This volume includes two of the French author's most acclaimed avant-garde novels; after graduation from the Sorbonne in philosophy, Butor published four experimental novels in the 1950s that led to his reputation as one of the early exponents of the French new novel (white covers with blue lettering; front cover slightly… Read more about this item

London, England, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2013. This is a collection of essays, originally delivered as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action in Africa at Northwestern University in 2009, and focused on dressed bodies and questions of agency and power; the essays are divided into four sections: Dressed Bodies and Power; Material Culture, Visual Recognition, and… Read more about this item

Maidenhead, Berkshire, England: Open University Press, 2005. This is a collection of essays that explore the role and function of lifestyle media in forming our ideas about taste, status, and identity (green pictorial cover with white lettering has very slight edge wear, remainder mark on lower edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2009. This definitive history of the long traditon of American consumer activism begins with the American Revolution and ends with the first attempt to create a Consumer Protection Agency 200 years later; includes illustrations (gray cloth with silver lettering on spine; gray dust jacket with black, red & white lettering; a bright, clean,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. This is a study of the social and spatial transformation of Stockholm during the last two decades of the 19th century; it reconstructs this transformaton of the local economy, civil society, and built environment through an interpretation of lost elements of language, forgotten fragments of daily discourse; includes photographs and other illustrations (black… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press This is a collection of essays on Renaissance literature and culture, originally delivered as papers at a conference on Renaissance Subject/Early Modern Object at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 by leading scholars in the New Historicist and material culture approaches to the Early Modern period; contributors include Margreta de Grazia, Patricia Parker, Louis Montrose, Stephen Orgel,… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2003. This book is about the poverty of popular political engagement in the richest countries, which it argues is the direct result of the system that has created their material wealth: capitalism; the author examines the work of political and social theorists, including Marx, Freud, Arendt, Elias, Habermas, and Castells in order to provide… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. This is a collection of diverse essays by philosophers and other observers of the meanings of fashion (white laminated pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.… Read more about this item