Abigail E Brooks

Country Mouse Cottage

Imagine living in a country cottage in the year 1900. Your life would be completely unlike the way we live today. You'd be busy from dawn till dusk-doing chores, working in the garden, and going to a one-room schoolhouse. But even with all the work to be done, there'd still be time for fun. With e...

Culture, Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. New strategies for marketing and advertising to children, the production of gendered subjectivity in maquiladora factories, the racialized economic history of t...

Town Mouse House

"My name is Augustus Town Mouse. I'd like to show you round our house." The year is 1900 and Augustus Town Mouse would like to show you around the tall terraced house where he lives with his family and a host of servants. Upstairs, there are grand dinners in the dining room with the butler close at ...

Culture, Power And History: Studies in Critical Sociology