“A carnivalesque romp through middle age, addressing the menace of mortality while lampooning comic stereotypes . . . Pulses with life” (The Globe and Mail,

This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation i

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author expos

"Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rul

Who – and what – are the Bourgeois? “The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go year