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  • Dishing it Out

    In Search of the Restaurant Experience

    by Robert Appelbaum ...
    From the hamburger haven to the temple of gastronomy, the restaurant is a fixture of modern life. But why is that so? What needs has the restaurant come to satisfy, and what needs has it come to impose upon the experience of the modern world? In Dishing It Out, Robert Appelbaum travels around America and Europe and through the annals of literature and history to explore the social meaning of the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Violence

    Art, Fiction, Drama and Film

    by Robert Appelbaum ...
    Series series Futures of the Archive
    Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He examines how violence in art is formed, contextualised and used by its audiences and readers. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry

    Edited by Professor Robert Trestman, L, Professor Kenneth Appelbaum, Professor Jeffrey Metzner ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry
    Correctional psychiatry has received increasing recognition as an area of practice with unique skills and knowledge. The Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry brings together American and international experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. Students and psychiatric residents will find basic information that prepares them for clinical rotations, and psychiatrists working in ... Read more

    $172.99 CAD

  • Working the Aisles

    A Life in Consumption

    by Robert Appelbaum, Professor Emeritus of Eng ...
    Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures -- including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Envisioning an English Empire

    Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World

    Edited by Robert Appelbaum, John Wood Sweet ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Envisioning an English Empire

    Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World

    Edited by Robert Appelbaum, John Wood Sweet ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... Read more

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  • American Slavery, American Freedom

    by Edmund S. Morgan ...
    "Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."—New York Times Book Review"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of Slavery

    by James Walvin ...
    As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the two layers of this extraordinary, definitive account of the Atlantic slave trade enable us to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Many-Headed Hydra

    Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

    by Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker ...
    Winner of the International Labor History AwardLong before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

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  • Emigrants

    Why the English Sailed to the New World

    by James Evans ...
    'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they go?Emigrants casts vivid new light on the population shift which underpins the rise of modern America. Using contemporary sources including diaries, court ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD