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  • The Night Battles

    Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...
    The classic study of witchcraft and popular belief, newly revisited.A landmark of microhistory, The Night Battles remains one of the most daring and influential investigations of witchcraft and popular belief in early modern Europe. Through meticulous research in the inquisitorial archives of northern Italy, Carlo Ginzburg reconstructs the story of the benandanti—the "good walkers"—peasants of the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cheese and the Worms

    The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...
    The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. In the fiftieth anniversary edition of this now-classic ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi ...
    Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events.More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

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    The Cheese and the Worms

    The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    by Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society Menocchio lived in.For a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Return of Martin Guerre

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent.Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land provides a brilliant ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Norman Conquest

    A Very Short Introduction

    by George Garnett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what actually happened? How was the invasion viewed by those who witnessed it? And how has its legacy been seen by generations since? This fascinating Very ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Collection Of Atlantis

    by NETLANCERS INC ...
    Collection Of AtlantisThis collection have 15 In-Apps books and they are :-A Dweller on Two Planets :- A very influential speculative novel of Atlantis and points beyond, purportedly composed via automatic writing by a teenager in the shadow of Mount Shasta.Atlantida :- A harrowing trip through the Sahara to ... Atlantis, and the strange allure of its ultimate queen.Atlantis, the Antediluvian ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

    Essays from the North

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Steve J. Stern ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Celebrating Canada

    Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities

    Edited by Mathew Hayday, Raymond B. Blake ...
    Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national andprovincial holidays and annual celebrations.The contributorstothis volume examine such holidays as Dominion Day, Victoria ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Making of Manners and Morals in Twelfth-Century England

    The Book of the Civilised Man

    by Fiona Whelan ...
    How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us believe – but how much truth is there in this notion? This book seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining medieval society through rules of conduct, and specifically through the ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • History in the Discursive Condition

    Reconsidering the Tools of Thought

    by Elizabeth Ermarth ...
    In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally. She puts forward a clear definition of both The Modern Condition and of The Discursive Condition that challenges it, and she briefly introduces the most important practical implications of those challenges to accepted ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD