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  • Leaving a Legacy

    Increase your social impact

    by Kaat Peeters, Omar Mohout ...
    People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ... Read more

    $34.90 CAD

  • Scientists' Expertise as Performance

    Between State and Society, 1860–1960

    Edited by Joris Vandendriessche, Evert Peeters, Kaat Wils ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • A Social History of Knowledge II

    From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia

    by Peter Burke ...
    Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe

    Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness

    Edited by Marie Cronqvist, Rosanna Farbøl, Casper Sylvest ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what ... Read more

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  • Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

    Edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits as a foundation of a professional ethos. Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Thinking Europe

    A History of the European Idea since 1800

    by MATS ANDRÉN ...
    Series Book 46 - Making Sense of History
    Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European ... Read more

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  • Health and Citizenship

    Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe

    Edited by Frank Huisman, Harry Oosterhuis ...
    Series series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
    This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Cold War Cultures

    Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

    Edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger ...
    The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • A History of the University in Europe: Volume 4, Universities since 1945

    Series Book 4 - A History of the University in Europe
    This is the final volume in a four-part series covering the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day, focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective. The originality of the series lies in its comparative, interdisciplinary, collaborative and transnational nature. It deals also with the content of what was taught at the ... Read more

    $239.19 CAD

  • For the Betterment of the Race

    The Rise and Fall of the International Movement for Eugenics and Racial Hygiene

    by S. Kühl ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Racism, race hygiene, eugenics, and their histories have for a long time been studied in terms of individual countries, whether genocidal ideology in Nazi Germany or scientific racial theories in the United States. As this study demonstrates, however, eugenic racial policy and scientific racism alike had a strongly international dimension. Concepts such as a 'Racial Confederation of European ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Comparison and History

    Europe in Cross-National Perspective

    Edited by Deborah Cohen, Maura O'Connor ...
    Historians today like to preach the virtues of comparison and cross-national work. In the last decade, cross-national histories have prospered, yielding important work in the subjects as diverse as the transatlantic trade in slaves and the cultures of celebrity. In the meantime, comparative history has also enjoyed a renaissance, but what is largely missing in the rush beyond the nation is any ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD