Sociology in Times of Glocalization

Sociology in Times of GlocalizationThis book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter reactions to them, to the many ways the global impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

Key figures covered include William Shakespeare

In a series of wide-ranging chapters on politics in thought

It uses Fane's surviving account books and letters

This volume attempts to rediscover the richness of community in the early modern world - through bringing together a range of fascinating material on the wealth of interactions that operated in the public sphere

It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world

Through Etherington

as well as the clash over interpretations of the causes of renewed conflict

placing parliament in its historical

This fascinating and original study will broaden the investigation of world exploration and Pacific ethnography

Governments mandated rationing programmes in many countries to regulate the limited supply

Rosebud Sleds and Horses’ Heads presents incisive discussion of fifty of the most significant objects in cinema history and explores their importance within their films and within the popular imagination

Milton and others illuminate how generations of poets have imagined their relation to their predecessors and their own place in the unfolding conversation of literature