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April 2026

Elites in civil society

A comparative perspective

by Niklas Altermark, Malin Arvidson, Jayeon Lee, Roberto Scaramuzzino

Where civil society is often seen as a driving force for equality, this book addresses a challenging topic: civil society elites. Drawing on a comprehensive study of Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, this ground-breaking research investigates the often-overlooked power structures within civil society. By combining elite studies with civil society research, the book uncovers how a distinct civil society elite emerges and how it interacts with leaders in politics and business. The findings reveal a fascinating paradox. While this elite may be a powerful engine for social change, its integration into wider power circles risks reproducing the very inequalities it seeks to dismantle. By exploring how this elite can become disconnected from its grassroots, the book provides essential insights into the future of civil society and its democratic promise.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2020

The British political elite and Europe, 1959-1984

A higher loyalty

by Bob Nicholls

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations. This evidence based account of the seminal period analyses the applications for EEC membership, the 1975 referendum, and the role of the press. Was the British public misled over the true aims of the European project? How significant was the role of the press in changing public opinion from anti, to pro Common Market membership? Why, after over 40 years since Britain became a member of the European community, does the issue continue to deeply divide not only the political elite, but also the British public? These, and other pertinent questions are answered in this timely book on a subject that remains topical and highly controversial.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2019

The British political elite and Europe 1959-1984

by Bob Nicholls

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November 2009

European Economic Elites.

by Herausgegeben von Sattler, Friederike; Herausgegeben von Boyer, Christoph

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2026

Revolutionary anxieties

Defending privilege in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

by Liina Mustonen

Revolutionary anxieties sheds light on an unexplored dimension of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: the anxieties experienced by Cairo-based liberal elite, socialites, and cultural actors who opposed the rise of the new political actors, the Muslim Brotherhood. This book provides fresh insights into the failure of the Egyptian revolution by examining the perspectives of those who had a vested interest in maintaining the status-quo. It engages with post-colonial theory and examines the elite milieu in Cairo through the lenses of gender and race. Based on over two years of ethnographic research in various elite locations such as the Cairo Opera House, an Egyptian-European film festival, and an elite sporting club in Cairo, the book illustrates how members of Egyptian liberal upper class insisted on their privilege in a moment when the country's class hierarchies were challenged. By revealing the prevalence of counter-revolutionary sentiment among Cairo's liberal and affluent elite, the book tells an untold story of the Arab Spring.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2025

The Germans in India

Elite European migrants in the British Empire

by Panikos Panayi

Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons towards British colonies, it examines the elite German migrants who progressed to India, especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen and travellers. The story told here questions, for the first time, the concept of Europeans in India. Previous scholarship has ignored any national variations in the presence of white people in India, viewing them either as part of a ruling elite or, more recently, white subalterns. The German elites undermine these conceptions. They developed into distinct groups before 1914, especially in the missionary compound, but faced marginalisation and expulsion during the First World War.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2024

Ireland and the Renaissance court

by David Edwards, Brendan Kane

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.

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March 2019

Young Elites - Die komplette Trilogie

Die Gemeinschaft der Dolche. Das Bündnis der Rosen. Die Herschaft der Weißen Wölfin.

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

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January 2017

Young Elites - Die Gemeinschaft der Dolche

by Lu, Marie / Englisch Knuffinke, Sandra; Englisch Komina, Jessika

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October 2017

Young Elites - Das Bündnis der Rosen

by Lu, Marie / Englisch Knuffinke, Sandra; Englisch Komina, Jessika

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Engendering whiteness

White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865

by Cecily Jones

Engendering whiteness represents a comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Despite their gendered subordination, their social location within the dominant white group afforded all white women a range of privileges. Hence, their whiteness, as much as their gender, shaped these women's social identities and material realities. Crucially, as the biological reproducers of whiteness, and hence the symbolic and literal embodiment and bearers of the state of freedom, they were critical to the maintenance and reproduction of the cultural boundaries of 'whiteness', and consequently the subjects of patriarchal measures to limit and control their social and sexual freedoms. Engendering whiteness draws on a wide variety of sources including property deeds, wills, court transcripts, and interrogates the ways in which white women could be simultaneously socially positioned within plantation societies as both agents and as victims. It also reveals the strategies deployed by elite and poor white women in these societies to resist their gendered subordination, to challenge the ideological and social constraints that sought to restrict their lives to the private domestic sphere, to protect the limited rights afforded to them, to secure independent livelihoods, and to create meaningful existences. A fascinating study that with be welcomed by historians of imperialism as well as scholars of gender history and women's studies.

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January 2017

Young Elites 1 - Die Gemeinschaft der Dolche

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

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January 2018

Young Elites - Die Herrschaft der Weißen Wölfin

by Lu, Marie / Englisch Knuffinke, Sandra; Englisch Komina, Jessika

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October 2017

Young Elites 2 - Das Bündnis der Rosen

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2020

Scotland

by Murray Stewart Leith, Duncan Sim

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January 2018

Young Elites 3 - Die Herrschaft der Weißen Wölfin

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

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May 2016

Elite und Krise in antiken Gesellschaften / Élites et crises dans les sociétés antiques

by Herausgegeben von Gilhaus, Lennart; Herausgegeben von Kirsch, Stephanie; Herausgegeben von Mossong, Isabelle; Herausgegeben von Reich, Franziska; Herausgegeben von Wirz, Sebastian

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2026

The neoliberal monarch

by Mikael Holmqvist

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April 2019

Elite

by Kiely, Brendan

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March 2015

Sprachlose Elite?

Wie Unternehmer Politik und Gesellschaft sehen

by Herausgegeben von Marg, Stine; Herausgegeben von Walter, Franz

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A comparative perspective

by Niklas Altermark, Malin Arvidson, Jayeon Lee, Roberto Scaramuzzino

A higher loyalty

by Bob Nicholls

by Bob Nicholls

by Herausgegeben von Sattler, Friederike; Herausgegeben von Boyer, Christoph

Defending privilege in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

by Liina Mustonen

Elite European migrants in the British Empire

by Panikos Panayi

by David Edwards, Brendan Kane

Die Gemeinschaft der Dolche. Das Bündnis der Rosen. Die Herschaft der Weißen Wölfin.

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

by Lu, Marie / Englisch Knuffinke, Sandra; Englisch Komina, Jessika

by Lu, Marie / Englisch Knuffinke, Sandra; Englisch Komina, Jessika

White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865

by Cecily Jones

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

by Lu, Marie / Englisch Knuffinke, Sandra; Englisch Komina, Jessika

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

by Murray Stewart Leith, Duncan Sim

by Lu, Marie / Übersetzt von Knuffinke, Sandra; Übersetzt von Komina, Jessika

by Herausgegeben von Gilhaus, Lennart; Herausgegeben von Kirsch, Stephanie; Herausgegeben von Mossong, Isabelle; Herausgegeben von Reich, Franziska; Herausgegeben von Wirz, Sebastian

by Mikael Holmqvist

by Kiely, Brendan

Wie Unternehmer Politik und Gesellschaft sehen

by Herausgegeben von Marg, Stine; Herausgegeben von Walter, Franz

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