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Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher : All Points Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1250184487
Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641772853
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes—a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information. These two classes correspond to the old French First and Second Estates. Below these two classes lies what was once called the Third Estate. This includes the yeomanry, which is made up largely of small businesspeople, minor property owners, skilled workers and private-sector oriented professionals. Ascendant for much of modern history, this class is in decline while those below them, the new Serfs, grow in numbers—a vast, expanding property-less population. The trends are mounting, but we can still reverse them—if people understand what is actually occurring and have the capability to oppose them.
Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271037813
"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815628447
Amira el-Azhary Sonbol has produced an analytical history of Egypt from the time before Muhammad Ali to the present day. Using local idioms and terms such as khassa and 'amma, iltazim and fa'iz, she has developed a methodology that is more meaningful because it ties events of the eighteenth century to those of the twentieth. The author explores the division that has existed in modern Egyptian society between two groups: the khassa, a ruling elite that tried to impose a hegemonic culture that reflected and encouraged its own economic interests, and the 'amma, the masses who clung to their heritage and customs in an attempt to acquire a share of the wealth. Sonbol discusses today's Islamic movement in Egypt as a revolution correcting the duality of culture that was brought about by historical events like colonialism and the importation of exogenous ideologies. She suggests a different way of looking at culture and the necessity of seeing cultural struggle as a method for studying the historical process that goes beyond the political and economical.
Author : Carl Stephenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : History
ISBN : 0801490138
Gives a clear and concise account of the feudal system, from its origin and growth to its decay. Also covers the principles of feudal tenure, chivalry, the military life of the nobility, and the workings of the feudal government.
Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781588361400
In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New Geography is a brilliant and indispensable guidebook to a fundamentally new landscape.
Author : Peter Drahos,John Braithwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1595581227
Uncovering the story of how a small coterie of multinational corporations came to write the charter for a new global information order, this book demonstrates why the world of intellectual property rights, patent regimes, and antitrust laws is an urgent concern for ordinary citizens.
Author : John Markoff
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271044415
Author : Kathleen Davis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207415
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism. This book's groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that the historical formation of "feudalism" mediated the theorization of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery. Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the relationship between these struggles and the narrative of "secularization," which grounds itself in a period divide between a "modern" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped "Middle Ages" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty, the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which relies essentially upon a medieval/modern divide, both underlies and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics. The problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing operations that constituted them, and that continue today to obscure the process by which "feudalism" and "secularization" govern the politics of time.
Author : M.A. Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317898962
This major work is the most radical reinterpretation of the subject for fifty years. Hicks argues that Bastard Feudalism was far more complex - and positive in its effects - than previous accounts have suggested. A major contribution to historical debate which revolutionises our view of late medieval society.
Author : V. Shlapentokh,Joshau Woods
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230609693
The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the model to post-Soviet Russia. In addition to a review of the feudal model as an ideal type, the author explains the analytical benefits of drawing comparisons between countries and across historical contexts. Specifically, contemporary Russia is compared to Western European countries during the Middle Ages and to the Soviet period in Russian history. The book is devoted to illuminating the most important political, social and economic characteristics of contemporary Russian society.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501143335
From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).
Author : Karen Orren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 052142254X
Traditional theories of American political development depict the American state as a thoroughly liberal state from its very inception. In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient feudalism was, in fact, embedded in the American governmental system, in the form of the law of master and servant, and persisted until well into the twentieth century. The law of master and servant was, she reveals, incorporated in the US Constitution and administered from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was achieved in America, Orren argues, only through the initiatives of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was finally ushered in as part of the processes of collective bargaining instituted by the New Deal. This book represents a fundamental reinterpretation of constitutional change in the United States and of the role of American organized labor, which is shown to be a creator of liberalism, rather than a spoiler of socialism.
Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349002535
Author : Paul Marlor Sweezy
Publisher : Verso
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005318352
Essays largely on Studies in the development of capitalism, by M. Dobb.
