Brazil : five centuries of change / by Skidmore, Thomas E.

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Elite women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745. Imitation and innovation / by Wilson, Rachel

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Democracy or Bonapartism : two centuries of war on democracy / by Losurdo, Domenico

Table of Contents: “…The fight for the vote: A tortuous and still-unfinished history -- A new tutor for the 'childlike' multitude -- An alternative to property qualifications: The origins of Bonapartism, from America to France -- The trumpets of the ruling classes and the bells of the subaltern -- The Bonapartist regime's baptism of fire -- Universal suffrage, proportional representation and the reaction against it -- The twentieth century: Between emancipation and disemancipation -- The triumph of soft Bonapartism.…”
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Egyptian society under Ottoman rule, 1517-1798 / by Winter, Michael, 1934-2020

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Historical Background -- chapter 2 The Vicissitudes of the Ruling Class -- chapter 3 The Bedouin Arabs and the State -- chapter 4 The Ulama -- chapter 5 The Sufis -- chapter 6 Popular Religion -- chapter 7 The Ashraf and Naqib Al-Ashraf: The Prophet's Descendants and their Chief -- chapter 8 The Dhimmis:Jews and Christians -- chapter 9 Life in Ottoman Cairo.…”
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Imperial romance : fictions of colonial intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945 / by Kim, Su Yun, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Imperial Romance -- Civilization and Enlightenment: The Role of the Japanese Home in the Early Colonial Period, 1905- -- Under the Same Roof: A Royal Wedding and a Mixed Family for the Ruling Class -- Wartime Ideology and the Integration of Korean-Japanese Mixed Families, 1930s -- Romance and Colonial Universalism -- Visualizing "International" and Korean-Japanese Marriage in Print Media -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Interracial Intimacy.…”
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The making of a Christian aristocracy : social and religious change in the western Roman Empire / by Salzman, Michele Renee

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Making race, making power : North Carolina's road to disfranchisement / by Redding, Kent, 1962-

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Law and power in the making of the Roman commonwealth / by Capogrossi Colognesi, Luigi

Table of Contents: “…The genesis of a political community -- The Etruscans -- From monarchy to republic -- Rome's republican institutions -- Toward Italian hegemony -- An aristocracy of government -- The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence -- Rome's Mediterranean hegemony : new horizons in the 3rd century BC -- The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class -- Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the republic -- Civil war -- Augustus : the construction of a new institutional system -- The architecture of governance -- The imperial order at its height -- The law and the princeps -- An empire of cities -- The conclusion of a long journey.…”
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Servants and paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell / by Nash, Julie, 1969-

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Family and community in early modern Spain : the citizens of Granada, 1570-1739 / by Casey, James, 1944-

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Creating the florentine state : peasants and rebellion, 1348-1434 / by Cohn, Samuel Kline

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Duels and the roots of violence in Missouri / by Steward, Dick, 1942-

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The Prophet and Power : Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti. by Dupuy, Alex

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The frightful stage : political censorship of the theater in nineteenth-century Europe /

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Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / by Colley, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Crisis of an order; The making of the British ruling class; The cultural reconstruction of an elite; Heroes of their own epic -- Majesty. …”
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The ANC's early years : nation, class and place in South Africa before 1940 / by Limb, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Perspectives on ANC-labour history -- Black labour in South Africa to 1940 -- Early African political organisations and black labour -- The SANNC and African working people -- To "heartily ... assist the working movement as best they can" : Congress and black labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919 -- "Join our union - you will find good result" : Congress and labour in the Cape, Natal and Orange Free State, 1912-1919 -- "A strong seed in a stony bed" : the 1920s -- "The ruling class is getting lost in the mist and sea of selfishness" : Natal in the 1920s -- "I-Kongilesi Lilizwi enzindlwini" (Congress's name is Household) : the Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s -- From "culpable inertia" to rebuilding : the ANC and labour in the 1930s -- Moderate centre, militant province? …”
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The sexual state : how elite ideologies are destroying lives and why the Church was right all along / by Morse, Jennifer Roback, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 14: On the Controversy Over the Definition of Marriage; Chapter 15: What the Catholic Church Says About Male and Female; Part Five: Conclusion; Chapter 16: From the Ruling Class to the Leadership Class; Chapter 17: From the Sexual State to a Civilization of Love: A Manifesto for the Family; Bibliography and Further Resources.…”
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Elite women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745 : imitation and innovation / by Wilson, Rachel

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The middling sort : commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 / by Hunt, Margaret R., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Capital, credit, and the family -- A generation of vipers : prudential virtue and the sons of trade -- To read, knit, and spin : middling daughters and the family economy -- "Just in all their dealings" : middling men and the reformation of manners, 1670-1739 -- Eighteenth-century middling women and trade -- The bonds of matrimony and the spirit of capitalism -- Print culture and the middling classes : mapping the world of commerce -- Private order and political virtue : domesticity and the ruling class.…”
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Exploring the economy of late antiquity : selected essays / by Banaji, Jairus, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…; Introduction; Aristocracies; The agrarian watershed of the seventh century; Critique of Wickham; The east: vulnerability; Three sectors of the aristocracy; Struggles within the ruling class; The naxarars and dynatoi; Epilogue: the biological fragility of a class.…”
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