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  • Ambivalent Pleasures

    Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe

    by Scott K. Taylor ...
    Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs like sugar, chocolate, tobacco, tea, coffee, distilled spirits like gin and rum, and opium either arrived in western Europe for the first time or were newly available as everyday commodities.Drawing ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • A Linking of Heaven and Earth

    Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire

    by Scott K. Taylor ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth. No scholar of the period has done more than Carlos M.N. Eire, however, to document how much these ruptures implicated otherworldly spheres as well. His deeply innovative publications helped shape new fields of study, intertwining social, intellectual, ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    by Sabrina Strings ...
    Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased ... Read more

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  • At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

    Night in Times Past

    by A. Roger Ekirch ...
    "Remarkable….Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal, The New YorkerBringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Social Sex

    A History of Female Friendship

    by Marilyn Yalom, Theresa Donovan Brown ...
    "Compelling. . . .clear-headed understanding and appreciation of the deep bonds that women form" from the acclaimed author of How the French Invented Love (Los Angeles Times ).In today's culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea of female friendship was completely unacknowledged, even pooh-poohed. Only men, the reasoning went, had the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ned Ludd & Queen Mab

    Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12

    by Peter Linebaugh ...
    Series series PM Pamphlet/Retort
    Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Gin

    A Spirited History from Alchemists' Stills and Colonial Outposts to Gin Palaces, Bathtub Gin, and Artisanal Cocktails

    by Richard Barnett ...
    "An absorbing popular history of one of history's most popular drinks." — BooklistGin has been a drink of kings infused with crushed pearls and rose petals, and a drink of the poor flavored with turpentine and sulfuric acid. Born in alchemists' stills and monastery kitchens, its earliest incarnations were juniper flavored medicines used to prevent plague, ease the pains of childbirth, and even to ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Polygamy

    An Early American History

    by M. S. Pearsall ...
    A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America"A richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in American from ca.1500 to 1900."—John Witte Jr., Journal of Law and ReligionToday we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comic Democracies

    From Ancient Athens to the American Republic

    by Angus Fletcher ...
    "Invites its readers to note the leaders and people who are willing and able to laugh, with and at themselves . . . Our political life may depend upon it." — The Review of PoliticsFor two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in ... Read more

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  • The History of Childhood

    Edited by Lloyd deMause ...
    from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Ambition, A History

    From Vice to Virtue

    by William Casey King ...
    Is "ambitious" a compliment? It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldFrom rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, ... Read more

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  • Children in Colonial America

    by James Marten, Philip J Greven ...
    Series Book 3 - Children and Youth in America
    A historical exploration of the childhood experiences of those who grew up and came of age in America's colonized communities.The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the ... Read more

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