An edition of Keywords (1976)

Keywords

a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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An edition of Keywords (1976)

Keywords

a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm.

Originally intended to be published along with the author's 1958 work Culture and Society, this work examines the history of more than a hundred words that are familiar and yet confusing: Art, Bureaucracy, Culture, Educated, Management, Masses, Nature, Originality, Radical, Society, Welfare, Work, and many others.

The approach is cultural rather than etymological. Sometimes the origins of a word cast light on its meaning, but often one finds that it originally meant something quite different. Or that there has been a fierce political struggle over the 'correct' meaning.

A revised and expanded edition of Keywords was published by Fontana in 1983. In 2005 Blackwell published New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society, an attempt to update Williams' text.

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Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
2014, Oxford University Press
in English - New edition.
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
2013, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
2012, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
2011, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
August 1992, Oxford University Press
in English
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Keywords : a vocabulary of culture and society
1989, Fontana Press
in English - Rev. ed. --
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Keywords
February 25, 1988, Fontana Press
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Keywords
February 25, 1988, Fontana Press
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
May 16, 1985, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
1985, Oxford University Press
in English - Rev. ed.
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
1985, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
in English
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Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
1983, Fontana Paperbacks
in English - Flamingo ed., rev. and expanded.
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Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society
1976, Fontana
Unknown Binding in English
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society
1976, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
1976, Fontana
in English
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society
1976, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
1976, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
1976, Fontana
in English
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
Publish date unknown, Oxford University Press; Rev Sub edition (1985-05-16)
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Keywords: vocabulary of culture and society.
Publish date unknown, Fontana
in English

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352

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OL46012387M
ISBN 13
9781283097840

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