Estates, degrees, and sorts: changing perceptions of society in Tudor and Stuart England / K. Wrightson

Hidalgo and pechero: the language of 'estates' and 'classes' in early-modern Castile / I.A.A. Thompson

Definitions of nobility in seventeenth-century France / R. Mettam

Class by name and number in eithteenth-century Britain / P.J. Corfeild

The emergence of 'society' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany / J.V. Melton

From gentlemen to the residuum: languages of social description in Victorian Britain / G. Crossick

'To each a language of his own': language, culture, and society in colonial India / D. Washbrook

The language of representation: towards a Muslim political order in nineteenth-century India / F. Shaikh

Chinese views of social classification / P.A. Kuhn

Languages of power in the United States / D.T. Rodgers and S. Wilentz

Language and interpretation: Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities / W. Downes