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  • Britain Since 1945

    Aspects of Identity

    by Peter Leese ...
    Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Leese offers students of all backgrounds both the essential chronological grounding and vital insight into the issues of identity necessary for a full understanding of contemporary Britain. ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • Languages of Trauma

    History, Memory, and Media

    Edited by Peter Leese, Jason Crouthamel, Julia Barbara Köhne ...
    This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II

    Edited by Ville Kivimäki, Peter Leese ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. Focusing especially on Eastern and Central Europe, its contributors take a fresh look at the experiences of violence and loss in 1939–45 and their long-term effects in different cultures and societies. The chapters analyze traumatic experiences among soldiers and civilians alike and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War

    Edited by Jason Crouthamel, Peter Leese ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memory and representations of trauma are transmitted between patients, doctors and families across generations. The book ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After

    Edited by Peter Leese, Jason Crouthamel ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective commemoration, and to visual sources as they illuminate the changing historical nature of trauma. The essays draw on ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • Geographies of the Holocaust

    by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano ...
    "[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives." —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of ColoradoThis book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at every scale of human experience, from the European continent to the experiences of individual human bodies. Built ... Read more

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  • The Roots of Evil

    The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence

    by Ervin Staub ...
    How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Altruistic Personality

    Rescuers Of Jews In Nazi Europe

    by Samuel P. Oliner ...
    An enligtening and powerful exploration of those who risked their lives to help others during the Holocaust—and those who did not—and what we must do to ensure that such a tragedy never occurs again.Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others—even total strangers—while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The War Within

    Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad

    by Alexis Peri ...
    Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeWinner of the University of Southern California Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize“Fascinating and perceptive.”—Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books“Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri’s account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad endured.”—Jonathan Mirsky, The ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • An Analysis of Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men

    Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

    by Tom Stammers, James Chappel ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Of all the controversies facing historians today, few are more divisive or more important than the question of how the Holocaust was possible. What led thousands of Germans – many of them middle-aged reservists with, apparently, little Nazi zeal – to willingly commit acts of genocide? Was it ideology? Was there something rotten in the German soul? Or was it – as Christopher Browning argues in this ... Read more

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  • Not in My Family

    German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust

    by Roger Frie ...
    Series series Explorations in Narrative Psychology
    Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Award Winner of the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award Even as the Holocaust grows more distant with the passing of time, its traumas call out to be known and understood. What is remembered, what has been imparted through German heritage, and what has been forgotten? Can familiar family stories be transformed into an understanding of the Holocaust's ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD