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ordered by best selling| A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945 | |||
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Author(s) : Matthew Hilton, Nick Crowson, James McKay, Jean-François Mouhot | ||
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| Brief Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced. ...Read More |
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| Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement | |||
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Author(s) : Matthew Hilton | ||
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| Brief The first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organized social and political movement, this book explores consumer movements, ideologies and organizations in twentieth-century Britain. It explores the history of organizations such as the Co-operative movement and the Consumers' Association an...Read More |
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| Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization | |||
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Author(s) : Matthew Hilton | ||
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| Brief The history of consumerism is about much more than just shopping. Ever since the eighteenth century, citizen-consumers have protested against the abuses of the market by boycotting products and promoting fair instead of free trade. In recent decades, consumer activism has responded to the challenges...Read More |
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| Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000: Perfect Pleasures (Studies in Popular Culture) | |||
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Author(s) : Matthew Hilton | ||
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| Brief This book is a concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early 19th century to the present day. It explores the culture of the pipe and the cigar in the 19th century, the role of the cigarette in the mass market economy of the early 20th century, and the politics of smoking and ...Read More |
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| NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-state Actors in Society and Politics since 1945 | |||
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| Brief Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational life, and arguably re-politicized generations dis...Read More |
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| The Ages of Voluntarism: How We Got to the Big Society (British Academy Original Paperbacks) | |||
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Author(s) : Matthew Hilton, James McKay | ||
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| Brief In May 2010, Britain's new Coalition government embarked on its journey to the Big Society. But how did we reach this point? Politicians and commentators have long bemoaned the supposed decline of civic life, fretting about its health and its future. In fact, the real story of voluntarism over the l...Read More |
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| Decoding Modern Consumer Societies (Worlds of Consumption) | |||
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| Brief Modern societies are consumer societies, but rigorous research into this dimension has only begun fairly recently. The knowledge that historians and social scientists have produced is impressive, but also bewilderingly diverse and sometimes conflicting. This comprehensive volume seeks to take stock ...Read More |
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| The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s (Consumption and Public Life) | |||
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Author(s) : Amy Randall | ||
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| Brief In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing a...Read More |
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| Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (Critical Cultural Communication) | |||
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| Brief Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple--to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most ...Read More |
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| Consumer Protection in the Age of the 'Information Economy' (Markets and the Law) (Markets and the Law) | |||
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| Brief To date, there have been few theoretical inquiries into the relationship between the basic objectives of consumer protection laws and technological innovation. This book addresses this need by considering the impact of technological innovation on the foundations of consumer advocacy, contracting beh...Read More |
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