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  • Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World

    Edited by Shirli Gilbert, Avril Alba ...
    Traces the history of connections between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism.The Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from the Nazi past, and their work rests on the ... Read more

    $34.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Holocaust Memorial Museum

    Sacred Secular Space

    by Avril Alba ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the 'secular' history of the Holocaust in sacred garb, memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions of the meaning and utility of Holocaust memory. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust

    Edited by Avril Alba, Jan Láníček ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, including the preceding refugee crisis and the aftermath. It then traces the reverberations of these events in forms of representation, commemoration and ... Read more

    $318.99 CAD

  • The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights

    Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials

    Edited by Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba, Dirk Moses ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museumsSpanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights

    Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials

    Edited by Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba, Dirk Moses ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museumsSpanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and ... Read more

    $85.59 CAD

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  • Fascism

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    by Kevin Passmore ...
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    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

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  • Call It Evil

    Understanding the Trump Era

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  • Did It Happen Here?

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