An edition of Keywords (1976)

Keywords

a vocabulary of culture and society

Flamingo ed., rev. and expanded.
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An edition of Keywords (1976)

Keywords

a vocabulary of culture and society

Flamingo ed., rev. and expanded.
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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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Fontana Paperbacks
Language
English
Pages
341

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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
1983, Fontana Paperbacks
in English - Flamingo ed., rev. and expanded.
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Keywords
1983, Fontana Press
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [339]-341.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
422
Library of Congress
PE1580 .W58 1983, H41

The Physical Object

Pagination
341 p. ;
Number of pages
341

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2907511M
ISBN 10
000654021X
LCCN
84137371
OCLC/WorldCat
11370695
LibraryThing
43815
Goodreads
2034062

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Work ID
OL260934W

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