This book, a condensed translation of the prize- winning "Jacqueries et revolution dans la Chine du XXe siecle", focuses on 'spontaneous' rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. Yet it raises issues inspired by the perennial concerns of revolutionary leaders, such as peasant 'class consciousness' and China's modernization. The author shows that the predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against agents of the state.

This study explores the diverse and changing ways in which English women participated in the market economy between 1300 and 1620. Marjorie Keniston McIntosh assesses women’s activity by examining their engagement in the production and sale of goods, service work, credit relationships, and leasing of property.

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The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, in history, and in contemporary culture generally. Beginning with the metaphor of 'the other woman' as a repository for the 'otherness' of all women in a masculinist-racist society, the discussion moves to elucidate the way discourses of race and sexuality thwart the realization of true inter-racial sisterhood.

The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it.