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  • Eurocentrism

    History, Identity, White Man’s Burden

    by Michael Wintle ...
    This bookraises awareness of Eurocentrism’s enormous impact and shows how, over the course of five centuries, Eurocentrism has extended its power across the globe.In the twenty-first century, Eurocentrism’s hegemony remains powerful. By exploring a wide range of sources including Eurocentric maps and images, historiography, and Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden, Wintle uncovers Eurocentrism’s ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Narratives of War

    Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Nanci Adler, Remco Ensel, Michael Wintle ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century.The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical records and evidence. The contributions address such issues as the tension and discrepancy between ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • European Identity and the Second World War

    by Menno Spiering, Michael Wintle ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...

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  • Fascism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kevin Passmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ... Read more

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  • The Tainted Source

    The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea

    by John Laughland ...
    An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its government, and ignores the importance of the sense of community essential to any democratic debate. ... Read more

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  • Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism

    Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism

    by A. James Gregor ...
    This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler, another of which was to shape the ideology of Benito Mussolini, and still another of which provided ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Seduction of Culture in German History

    by Wolf Lepenies ...
    During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

    by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan ...
    For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Intellectual Temptation

    Dangerous Ideas in Politics

    by Frits Bolkestein ...
    an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.- Joshua Muravchikan erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.- Christopher CaldwellBolkestein exposes todays fashionable, yet dangerous ideas, doing a great service not only to Europe ... Read more

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  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD