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  • Freedom as Marronage

    by Neil Roberts ...
    What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage—a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blues & Beatles

    by Neil Roberts ...
    Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A passion for Everton. A passion for The Beatles. Blues & Beatles is the story of football and music across the generations. The story of how a young boy inherited those fascinations from his father - and would one day pass them on to his own son. And it's the story of how he met his heroes along the way. From legendary footballers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass

    by Neil Roberts ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    "A splendid opportunity to rethink Douglass's political thought . . . relevant today given the discourse of white nationalism in the United States." — ChoiceFrederick Douglass was a writer and public speaker whose impact on America has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Holocene

    An Environmental History

    by Neil Roberts ...
    The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by natural forces to those dominated by human actions, including those of climate and greenhouse gases. Understanding the environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Zara Yacob's Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism

    by Teodros Kiros ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    For too long, the human heart has been treated as no more than a physical organ that pumps blood. Recently, scientific evidence has emerged to show the heart is so much more. Zara Yacob’s Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism adds to the groundbreaking argument that the heart is also a thinking organ, a function that is always attributed to the human brain. The argument is marshalled with ... Read more

    $105.49 CAD

  • Creolizing Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Neil Roberts ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, and the modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Creolizing Rousseau

    Edited by Jane Anna Gordon, Neil Roberts ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had “such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity” within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories that rejected ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Journeys in Caribbean Thought

    The Paget Henry Reader

    by Paget Henry ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry.Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture

    Edited by Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry

    by Neil Roberts ...
    Series series Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
    Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • A Lucid Dreamer

    The Life of Peter Redgrove

    by Dr Neil Roberts, Peter Redgrove ...
    The work of the poet Peter Redgrove is one of the great unexplored treasures of late twentieth century literature. His prolific output presents an intriguing variety of personae: magician, scientist, lover, psychologist, joker, madman. It is only now, with the publication of his Collected Poems and this biography, that we can see how and why these personae developed - and discover the full depth ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • An Evil Day in Georgia

    The Killing of Coleman Osborn and the Death Penalty in the Progressive-Era South

    by Robert Neil Smith ...
    On the night of August 5, 1927, someone shot and killed Coleman Osborn, a store owner in Chatsworth, Georgia, in his place of business. Police and neighbors found only circumstantial traces of the murderer: tire tracks, boot prints, shell casings, and five dollars in cash near Osborn’s body. That day, three individuals—James Hugh Moss, a black family man locally renowned for his baseball skills; ... Read more

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