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  • Agroecological Crop Protection

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Deguine, Caroline Gloanec, Philippe Laurent, Alain Ratnadass, Jean-Noël Aubertot ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection. It presents the concepts of this innovative approach, case studies and lessons and generic keys for agroecological transition. The book is intended for a wide audience, including scientists, experimenters, teachers, farmers, students. It represents a new tool, ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    Edited by Eric Lichtfouse, Mireille Navarrete, Philippe Debaeke, Souchere Véronique, Caroline Alberola ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes, increasing fuel and transportation costs, flaws of the global market, worldwide pesticide pollution, pest adaptation and resistance ... Read more

    $511.99 CAD

  • Religion and Secularism in the European Union

    State of Affairs and Current Debates

    Edited by Jan Nelis, Caroline Sägesser, Jean-Philippe Schreiber ...
    Series Book 8 - Dynamiques citoyennes en Europe / Citizenship Dynamics in Europe
    The present volume monitors new developments concerning religious issues, faith-based organizations, State-Church relations and secularism in the EU, which especially during the past two decades have undergone profound changes, changes which continuously and increasingly alter mentalities and habits, whether belief-related or not. In this collective work, authors develop the major themes that are ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Dark Thread

    From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

    by John D. Lyons, Hervé-Thomas Campangne, David LaGuardia, Timothy Chesters, Kathleen Long, Marina S. Brownlee, Maria Tausiet, Michael Meere, Caroline Warman, Guy Spielmann0, Philippe Roger1, Alison Booth2, Jennifer Tsien3, Jocelyn Moore4 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Calculation and Morality

    The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles

    by Caroline Oudin-Bastide, Philippe Steiner, Keith Tribe ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in History of Economics
    Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    by Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Book 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Free and French in the Caribbean

    Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition

    by John Patrick Walsh ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    "All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature."—Daniel Desormeaux, University of ChicagoIn Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bonds of Alliance

    Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

    by Brett Rushforth ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule. Balancing a vast ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Society of Equals

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • On the Spirit of Rights

    by Dan Edelstein ...
    A "superb" evaluation of the history of human rights "especially in [its] ability to situate ideas in their broadest cultural and political setting" ( New York Review of Books) .By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The French Atlantic Triangle

    Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade

    by Christopher L. Miller ...
    The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD