Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility and Political Control in Fourteenth-Century England
A study of Edward III's astute use of patronage to reposition the monarchy after the vicissitudes of his father's reign and his own problematic minority.
Collective Decision Making: Views from Social Choice and Game Theory
This book brings together interesting contributions in Social Choice Theory of important researchers in the field. To mention: Steven Brams, William Gehrlein, Wulf Gaertner, Michel Grabisch, Bernie Grofman, Herman Monsuur, Hannu Nurmi, Hans Peters, Ton Storcken, Martin Van Hees, Donald Saari and Maurice Salles. The contributions show actual research topics in social choice and bring the reader to the state of the art in the theory.
The Politics of Social Conflict - The Peak Country 1520 - 1770
This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. Based on a close study of the Peak Country of Derbyshire c. 15201770, it has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. A detailed reconstruction of economic and social change within the region is followed by an in-depth examination of the changing cultural meanings of custom, gender, locality, skill, literacy, orality and magic.
Literacy and the Social Order - Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England
In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was the ability to read and write; and how widely distributed were these skills? Using a combination of humanist and social-scientific methods, Dr Cressy provides a detailed reconstruction of the profile of literacy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, looking forward to the eighteenth century and also making comparisons with other European societies.
The half-century since the end of World War II has been crucial in defining America's image of itself and role in the world. A thorough survey of an era dominated by the cold war on the international front and conflicting social forces at home, this authoritative reference volume details every aspect of a turbulent age.
