The Agricultural Revolution

The Agricultural Revolution
Author: Eric Kerridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415381468

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England

The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England
Author: Philip Gardner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351003003

Published in 1984. As late as 1870, a substantial proportion of working class pupils receiving an elementary education were attending private schools, run by the working class itself, instead of schools which were publicly sponsored. Previous studies in this area have concentrated on the latter, however, the author of this study adopts a wider approach by focusing on the relation between the working-class and education, in order to demonstrate the nature of the class-cultural conflict that existed. Two main methods of investigation are employed: the pattern of working-class responses to the official educational provision are charted and the positive traditions of independent working-class educational activity are analysed. These traditions formed a part of the foundation on which resistance to official education was based. This thoroughly researched book extends our understanding of this hitherto neglected area in the history of education.

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet
Author: Minh-Ha T. Pham
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0822374889

In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet. Pham understands their online activities as “taste work” practices that generate myriad forms of capital for superbloggers and the brands they feature. A multifaceted and detailed analysis, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet addresses questions concerning the status and meaning of “Asian taste” in the early twenty-first century, the kinds of cultural and economic work Asian tastes do, and the fashion public and industry’s appetite for certain kinds of racialized eliteness. Situating blogging within the historical context of gendered and racialized fashion work while being attentive to the broader cultural, technological, and economic shifts in global consumer capitalism, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet has profound implications for understanding the changing and enduring dynamics of race, gender, and class in shaping some of the most popular work practices and spaces of the digital fashion media economy.