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  • British Society Since 1945

    The Penguin Social History of Britain

    by Arthur Marwick ...
    Series series
    High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text.'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Sixties

    Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974

    by Arthur Marwick ...
    If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade.Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Transnational Moments of Change

    Europe 1945, 1968, 1989

    by Padraic Kenney, Aldo Agosti, Anna Balzarro, Paulina Bren, Patrick Burke, Arthur Marwick, Patrick Pasture, Kristina Schulz, Jarle Simensen0, Miroslav Vanek1, Juan José Gutiérrez2 ...
    Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around the globe offer a range of transnational approaches to three ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • The People

    The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

    by Selina Todd ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In ... Read more

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    The People We Are

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    The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians.What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, ... Read more

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  • Dark Continent

    Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Mark Mazower ...
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  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
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  • Fascism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kevin Passmore ...
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  • A History of Canadian Culture

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  • How to Stop Fascism

    History, Ideology, Resistance

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