The preservation of a strict social hierarchy rests very often on the enforcement of correct modes of address. In America ...

The peasants were angry about a range of issues, such as low pay and the introduction of a poll tax. They demanded changes were made. The revolt did not achieve all of the peasants’ aims and the ...

During the first half of the 16th century, the poor in central Germany were at their wit’s end. The wealth gap grew ever larger as taxes were handed down from those in power and services were ...