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  • From Popular Front to Cold War

    The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954

    Edited by Elissa Sampson, Robert M. Zecker ...
    From Popular Front to Cold War tells the story of the International Workers Order (IWO), an organization founded in 1930 to provide life, burial, and health insurance to its members. But as the essays gathered by Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker make clear, the IWO broadened its mission to promote interracial solidarity, support labor unions, combat racism and antisemitism, and champion ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 25 No. 2, 2014

    by Ian Wereley, Eduardo Fabbro, Leah Knight, Ariel Beaujot, Benjamin Hoy, Robert M. Zecker, Greg Donaghy, Carolyn Podruchny, John Bonnett, Nathalie Charbonneau, Léon Robichaud, Joanne Burgess, Jessica Dimka, Carolyn Orbann, Lisa Sattenspiel, Victor Avdeev, Heather Coleman, Erica Fraser, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Heather J. Coleman, Erica L. Fraser ...
    Series Book 25 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The Carolingian conquest of Lombard Italy (774) was preceded by a massive effort on the part of the Church to convince the Frankish court of the legitimacy of the invasion. Relying on a terminology borrowed from Gregory I, the papal court produced an offensive portrait of the Lombards, depicted as treacherous, vile, and heathen. This article analyzes eighth-century papal epistolary and the Liber ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

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  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

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  • Remembering 1759

    The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory

    by Phillip Buckner, John G. Reid ...
    This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes.The essays contained in ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • White Thinking

    'Profound' The Sunday Times

    by Lilian Thuram ...
    Translated by David Murphy, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Cristina Johnston ...
    'Profound' The Sunday Times'Truly Significant' The Independent'Ambitious' The ConversationWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white ... Read more

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  • Marxism and the French Left

    Studies on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981

    by Tony Judt ...
    Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing ... Read more

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  • Foucault

    The Birth of Power

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach?Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a ... Read more

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  • The First Knowledge Economy

    Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which ... Read more

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  • The Writing Public

    Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France

    by Elizabeth Andrews Bond ...
    Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Publicis a compelling addition to the long-running debate about the link between the Enlightenment and the political struggle that followed. Elizabeth Andrews Bond scoured France's local newspapers spanning the two decades prior to the Revolution as well as its first three years, shining a light ... Read more

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  • Prayers, Petitions, and Protests

    The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910-1928

    by Jack D. Cecillon ...
    In 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued the controversial Regulation 17 in an attempt to improve the quality of English-language teaching in the province, while effectively restricting French-language instruction within bilingual schools. Prayers, Petitions, and Protests explores popular reaction to the policy in the Windsor border area and the radical opposition of the Catholic ... Read more

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