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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015

    by Jane Freeland, Kenneth C. Dewar, Marcie Frank, Barbara Leckie, Mark Salber Phillips, Carolyn Podruchny, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Ian Mosby, Susan Neylan, James Daschuk, Tamara de Szegheo Lang, William John Pratt, Kirk Niergarth ...
    Series Book 26 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The winner of the 2014 Ferguson Prize was Mark Phillips’ On Historical Distance, a work that sets itself the task of examining what historians usually take for granted: historical distance, conventionally conceived, in Phillips’ words, as “a position of detached observation made possible by the passage of time.” Phillips reimagines historical distance as enacted in multiple dimensions of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

    by Leslie Howsam ...
    Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Translating Montreal

    by Sherry Simon ...
    With the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. She traces an evocative history of literary passages across familiar sites - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent Mile End Mont Royal - as she follows adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid A.M. Klein and Pierre Anctil and ... Read more

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  • Gender and the Politics of History

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Public Art in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    by James S. McLean, Annie Gérin ...
    Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Oral History Reader

    Edited by Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Readers in History
    The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Canadians and Their Pasts

    by Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, D.A. Muise, Peter Seixas, Jocelyn Létourneau, David Northrup ...
    What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history in their everyday lives. The results of their survey form the basis of this eye-opening book ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Settling and Unsettling Memories

    Essays in Canadian Public History

    by Nicole Neatby, Peter Hodgins ...
    Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field.With increasing debates surrounding how ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

    by Richard J. Lane ...
    Series series Routledge Concise Histories of Literature
    The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts.In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines:the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the presentkey texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebecthe impact of English translation, and the Canadian ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • In the Museum of Man

    Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950

    by Alice L. Conklin ...
    In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD