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  • Relocating Eden

    The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic

    by Alan Rudolph Marcus ...
    In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the cold and barren lands of the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents’ promises of plentiful game, virgin land, and a lifestyle untainted by Western Influences, these “voluntary migrants,” who soon numbered nearly ninety, found instead isolation, hunting limited by game preserve ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Land of Milk and Money

    The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

    by Alan I. Marcus ...
    In Land of Milk and Money*,* Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking specifically at the internal history of the Borden Company—the world’s largest dairy firm—as well as small-town efforts to lure industry and manufacturing south, Marcus suggests that the rise of the modern dairy business resulted from debates and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Teaching History with Film

    Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

    by Alan S. Marcus, Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton, Jeremy D. Stoddard ...
    Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas for implementing film-based lessons in their own classrooms and offers a deeper understanding of ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Malignant Growth

    Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915

    by Alan I Marcus ...
    An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Technology in America

    A Brief History

    by Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal ...
    Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Service as Mandate

    How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015

    by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Robert C. McMath, R. Douglas Hurt0, Mr. Hamilton Cravens1, Stephanie Statz2, Mr. Melissa Walker3 ...
    Series Book 2 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century

    Edited by Neil Ewen, Alan Grattan, Marcus Leaning, Paul Manning ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology – that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Visualizing the City

    Edited by Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann ...
    Series series Architext
    This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Economics and Alcohol

    Consumption and Controls

    Edited by Marcus Grant, Martin Plant, Alan Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism
    During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, general levels of alcohol consumption had risen considerably in all parts of the world. In association with this, there was a proliferation of alcohol-related problems such as liver disease, drunkenness offences, marital disharmony and employment difficulties. Many factors influence the probability of alcohol addiction and the habits of drinking; they include age ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Science as Service

    Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

    by Alan I Marcus, Robert B. Fairbanks, Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Dr. Mark R. Finlay, Dr. Paul K. Nienkamp, Ph.D., Dr. Sara E. Morris, Dr. Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Dr. Debra A. Reid, Ph.D., Richard F. Hirsh0, Dr. Bruce E. Seely1 ...
    Series Book 1 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Celluloid Blackboard

    Teaching History with Film

    Edited by Alan S. Marcus ...
    Series series Contemporary Research in Education
    This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students’ historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.In part one the essays explore three frameworks for the analysis of film by secondary students. Part two fills a void in the scholarship, reporting on four recent ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

    A New Geography of the Atlantic World

    by Alan P. Marcus ...
    The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD