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  • Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)

    by J. Bowles Daly; Jonathan Swift ...
    "Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift" by J. Bowles Daly explores the socio-political landscape of Ireland during the early 18th century, a time marked by the influential writings of Jonathan Swift. The book delves into the complexities of Swift's life and his role as a satirist, highlighting how his works reflect the struggles and injustices faced by the Irish people. Through a detailed examination ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hammer, Sickle, and Soil

    The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture

    by Jonathan Daly ...
    In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Knew Russia

    Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold Warrior

    by Jonathan Daly ...
    Series series Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
    Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, and influential Soviet expert during the Cold War. A towering figure in his field, Pipes produced work that shaped the study of Russian and Soviet history, and he influenced U.S. foreign policy as a public intellectual and political advisor, including as a member of the National Security Council ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Crime and Punishment in Russia

    A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

    by Professor Jonathan Daly ...
    Series series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series
    Crime and Punishment in Russia surveys the evolution of criminal justice in Russia during a span of more than 300 years, from the early modern era to the present day. Maps, organizational charts, a list of important dates, and a glossary help the reader to navigate key institutional, legal, political, and cultural developments in this evolution.The book approaches Russia both on its own terms and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Western Power

    A Comparative History of Western Civilization

    by Professor Jonathan Daly ...
    In this second edition of The Rise of Western Power, Jonathan Daly retains the broad sweep of his introduction to the history of Western civilization as well as introducing new material into every chapter, enhancing the book's global coverage and engaging with the latest historical debates.The West's history is one of extraordinary success: no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • How Europe Made the Modern World

    Creating the Great Divergence

    by Professor Jonathan Daly ...
    One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, spacious gardens, and sophisticated urban amenities; meanwhile, Paris, Rome, and London were cramped and unhygienic collections of villages, and Europe was a backwater. How, then, did it rise to world preeminence over the next several centuries? This is ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Historians Debate the Rise of the West

    by Jonathan Daly ...
    How and why did Europe rise to world pre-eminence? Providing an overview of this central historical conundrum of modern times, Historians Debate the Rise of the West enables students to grasp major scholars’ evaluations of the biggest picture of all: how Western civilization fits into modern world history.Most historians who write in this area subscribe to a combination of interpretations set ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

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  • Provincializing Europe

    Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly ... Read more

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  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Results and Prospects

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from ... Read more

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