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The Third Revolution
This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way.
The Making of a Social Historian
Harold Perkin is one of the pioneers of modern social history. This is his rags to riches, or rather slums to suburbs, story, combined with the rise of social history as the most popular aspect of that burgeoning media discipline. Born at the poorer end of an extended family that stretched from poor potters to the owners of thirteen factories, he rose by a talent for passing exams, winning prizes, and sheer good luck, to become the first titular professor of social history in Britain. On the way he became the leading lady in the Cambridge Footlights, an apprentice journalist, an RAF officer, a trade union leader and negotiator of university salaries (with Margaret Thatcher), a television pre...
The Origins of Modern English Society
A long-awaited revised edition of one of our key History titles - one of the bestselling titles on the list This is a seminal text of social history Has a new introduction that evaluates the book within its present historiographical context. Part of our informal 'Vintage' history series of new editions - with a new 'classic' look and new introduction by the author.
The Rise of Professional Society
This long awaited sequel to The Origins of Modern English Societyexplores the rise of 'the forgotten middle class' to show a new principle of social organization.
The Rise of Professional Society
The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social theorists.
The Age of the Automobile
This lively work offers a wide-ranging account of the social history of the motorised age, and of the machine which has reshaped the character and development of the modern world. It places the development of the car (and of its more sinister cousins the tank and the war plane) in their context and impact on society in peace and war from the Edwardian period onwards. The author shows that automobiles in particular represented a modernity which promised to the individual power over time, space, and their own personal machine. They were emblems, too, of sex appeal, and of the new consumerism. They were prismatic of modern society itself, and a futuristic key to its social history. And as they came down in price over time they opened up the world anew to the middle and then the working class. This is a social history of modern Britain at its most focussed, on issues that really matter.
The Age of the Railway. A Social History of 19th Century Britain.
This well-illustrated work by a distinguished social historian narrates the epic of the great age of railway history and development. It sets this in the context of the social history and its contemporary impact on society as a whole. It shows authoritatively how the railways revolutionised everything - being the most spectacular change of the Industrial Revolution. This impact continues to shape our life today, as the railways transformed the economic life of whole nations and transformed the quality of life itself.
