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  • Chain's Toward the Blues

    by Professor Peter Beilharz ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Oceania
    Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways, taking on a style later referred to as Oz blues, or Oz indigo. The emergence of prog rock and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Work of History

    Writing for Stuart Macintyre

    by Peter Beilharz, Sian Supski ...
    Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. Leading scholars write here of Macintyre's contribution to understanding radicalism and communism, postwar reconstruction, education and civics, universities, liberalism, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Intimacy in postmodern times

    A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman

    by Peter Beilharz ...
    Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman’s collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Social Theory

    A guide to central thinkers

    by Peter Beilharz ...
    'An alluvial goldfield of social theorists - nuggets lying around all over the place.'Bob ConnellWho's who in the social theory zoo? This book introduces some of the leading social theorists in short, lively entries by leading Australian scholars. Social Theory covers thinkers from Althusser to Williams, by locals from Alexander to Yeatman.For beginner and enthusiast alike, it gives a sense of the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism

    Fabianism and the Political Economy of Everyday Life

    by Peter Beilharz, Chris Nyland ...
    Series series Avebury Series in Philosophy
    This book seeks to explore the understanding of Fabianism of both the Webbs and the Fabian Women’s Group and how this understanding shaped their views regarding such gender-centred issues as the family wage; protective labour law; and women’s place in the welfare state, the home and the labour market. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Labour's Utopias

    Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy

    by Peter Beilharz ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
    First published in 1992. The collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe has led to a widespread view that socialism is a dead, or at least dying, force. Labour’s Utopias argues that this assumption is based on the popular conception that socialism’s various traditions are simply different means to a common end. The author looks at three strands of socialism – Bolshevism, Fabianism and German ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Engaging Agnes Heller

    A Critical Companion

    by Katie Terezakis, Peter Beilharz, Janos Boros, Amos Friedland, John Grumley, Horst Hutter, Preben Kaarsholm, Dmitri Nikulin, Simon Tormey, Richard J. Bernstein0, Kira Brunner Don1, Bryan S. Turner2, Agnes Heller3 ...
    This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers, sociologists, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism

    by Peter Beilharz ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
    First published in 1987. Trotskyists have long dominated the revolutionary tradition on the Western left. Written from a critical socialist standpoint, this book provides an analysis of Trotskyism and argues that Trotskyism is increasingly irrelevant as a means of achieving socialism. It argues that, as the realisation grows that the revolutionary tradition and the authoritarianism which ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Media and Power

    by James Curran ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society.*How much power do the media have?*Who really controls the media?*What is the relationship between media and power in society?In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given, before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays.This book ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Whiteness

    An Introduction

    by Steve Garner ...
    What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences?Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies. If one of sociology's objectives is to make the familiar unfamiliar in order to gain heightened understanding, then whiteness offers a perfect opportunity to do so.Leaning firstly on ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000

    Edited by David Brown, Robert Crowcroft, Gordon Pentland ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world. Powerful processes - from the development of democracy, the changing nature of the social contract, war, and economic dislocation - have challenged, and at times threatened to overwhelm, both governors and governed. Such shifts have ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945

    An Introduction

    Edited by June Purvis ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research.It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD