America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

The United States Divided: The Civil conflict of the Nineteen Sixties, 5th variation, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural heritage of Nineteen Sixties the United States. Written through most sensible specialists at the era--Maurice Isserman, a historian of yank radicalism, and Michael Kazin, a consultant in social movements--this booklet presents a compelling story of this tumultuous period packed with clean and persuasive insights.

Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Stateless Nation (International Library of Sociology)

Scotland stands on the centre of sociological issues within the past due twentieth century. instead of being an ungainly, sick becoming case, a country with no nation, it really is on the centre of the discipline's postmodernist quandary. Scotland has been a part of the uk, a hugely centralized and unitary kingdom for almost three hundred years, but has survived the Union in 1707 as a particular civil society.

Kunai Men: Horticultural Systems of a Papua New Guinea Society (UC Publications in Anthropology)

Kinship, Networks, and Exchange (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

The reason of this choice of unique essays is to revitalize the examine of kinship and trade in a social community standpoint. the gathering combines experiences of empirical structures of marriage and descent with investigations of the move of fabric assets. This ebook marks the emergence of a brand new period within the learn of kinship and trade utilizing a effective mix of ethnographic substance with formal equipment, one that leaves at the back of older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.