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Product Description: Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism...read more

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9781472461957 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 4, 2016, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism.

Beginning, in a sense, where "Prophecy and Progress" ended, this work by Krishan Kumar provides an introduction to three new theories of industrial society: the information society, post-Fordism, and postmodernism. Asking why these theories have appeared when they have, and why they have held such an appeal, this critical survey should be suitable for students of contemporary society.

Hardcover:

9780631185581 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1995, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Beginning, in a sense, where "Prophecy and Progress" ended, this work by Krishan Kumar provides an introduction to three new theories of industrial society: the information society, post-Fordism, and postmodernism.

Paperback:

9781405114295 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 15, 2004), cover price $56.95
9780631185598 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1995, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.

Miscellaneous:

9781405137614 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, February 24, 2009), cover price $45.95

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By Gerard Delanty (editor) and Krishan Kumar (editor)

Hardcover:

9781412901017 | 1 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, June 29, 2006), cover price $185.00

Paperback:

9788176621779 | Motilal Books Uk, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.45

Hardcover:

9780521771887 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 2003, cover price $109.99

Paperback:

9780521777360 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $44.99

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Product Description: Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens...read more
By Nezar Alsayyad (editor), Manuel Castells (editor), Renate Holub (contributor) and Krishan Kumar (contributor)

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9780739103388 | Lexington Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam.

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Product Description: In 1989, from East Berlin to Budapest and Bucharest to Moscow, communism was falling. The walls were coming down and the world was being changed in ways that seemed entirely new. The conflict of ideas and ideals that began with the French Revolution of 1789 culminated in these revolutions, which raised the prospects of the "return to Europe" of East and Central European nations, the "restarting of their history," even, for some, the "end of history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780816634521 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In 1989, from East Berlin to Budapest and Bucharest to Moscow, communism was falling.

Paperback:

9780816634538 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $30.00

Miscellaneous:

9780313007149 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 2001, cover price $93.45 | also contains Rare Lymphomas

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Product Description: These essays, by widely respected scholars in fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, illuminate the significance of the public/private distinction for an increasingly wide range of debates...read more
By Krishan Kumar (editor) and Jeff Weintraub (editor)

Hardcover:

9780226886237 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 29, 1997, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: These essays, by widely respected scholars in fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, illuminate the significance of the public/private distinction for an increasingly wide range of debates.

Paperback:

9780226886244 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: These essays, by widely respected scholars in fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, illuminate the significance of the public/private distinction for an increasingly wide range of debates.

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Product Description: News from Nowhere (1890), William Morris' most famous work, is a utopian picture of a future communist society, depicting a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a workers' revolution, and in which nature and society have become beautiful habitations for humanity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521420075 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 1995, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: News from Nowhere (1890), William Morris' most famous work, is a utopian picture of a future communist society, depicting a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a workers' revolution, and in which nature and society have become beautiful habitations for humanity.

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9780706970043 | 3 edition (Vikas Pub, December 1, 1993), cover price $26.00

Product Description: Utopia has always had a close, though ambivalent, relationship with millennialism. This relationship was probably at its most intense in England at the time of the Civil War; even when utopia aspired to secularism – as at the time of the French Revolution, or in nineteenth-century socialism – it continued to turn to millennial forms to recharge its energies...read more
By Stephen Bann (editor) and Krishan Kumar (editor)

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9780948462450 | Reaktion Books, July 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Utopia has always had a close, though ambivalent, relationship with millennialism.

Hardcover:

9780706978681 | 5 revised edition (South Asia Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780706975123 | 5 revised edition (South Asia Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $14.00

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Product Description: Utopia has become a vague term, synonymous almost with the Good Society or the Good Time. It is applied to the dreams and visions of all peoples and all times: from backward-looking myths of the Golden Age to the future prospect of a glorious Millennium, from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained...read more

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9780816619740 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Utopia has become a vague term, synonymous almost with the Good Society or the Good Time.

Paperback:

9780816619757 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Utopia has become a vague term, synonymous almost with the Good Society or the Good Time.

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Product Description: What is the sociological theory of industrialism? How far do the actual histories and practices of industrial societies fit this theory? The studies in this volume examine many of the economic, social, political and cultural changes caused by the industrialization of society...read more

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9780631160076 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1988, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: What is the sociological theory of industrialism?

Hardcover:

9780706923131 | 3 sub edition (Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division, September 1, 1983), cover price $37.50

Hardcover:

9780706907384 | 2 edition (Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division, February 1, 1980), cover price $22.50

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