An edition of Keywords (1976)

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An edition of Keywords (1976)

Keywords

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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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Publisher
Fontana Press
Pages
352

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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
Cover of: Keywords
Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
1985, Oxford University Press
in English - Rev. ed.

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The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
352
Dimensions
7.7 x 4.8 x 0.9 inches
Weight
9.1 ounces

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Open Library
OL9215250M
Internet Archive
keywordsvocabula00will_878
ISBN 10
0006861504
ISBN 13
9780006861508
Library Thing
43815
Goodreads
1225504

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