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  • Subversive Peacemakers

    War Resistance 1914-1918: An Anglican Perspective

    by Clive Barrett ...
    The outbreak of the First World War saw an upsurge of patriotism. The Church generally saw the war as justified, and many clergy encouraged the men in their congregations to join the army. There was, however, already a strong strand of anti-war sentiment, opposed to the dominant theology of the Establishment. This was partly based on traditional Christian pacifism, but included other religious, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Museums for Peace

    In Search of History, Memory, and Change

    Edited by Joyce Apsel, Clive Barrett, Roy Tamashiro ...
    Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the inspiring as well as conflicting representations and purposes of diverse museums for peace around the world.Coming from various cultural and professional backgrounds, the authors explore “what are museums for peace and what do they mean?” Some chapters introduce alternative histories of peace, conflict, and memorialization. ... Read more

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  • The English and Their History

    by Robert Tombs ...
    A New York Times 2016 Notable BookRobert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever ... Read more

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  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Rise of Ecofascism

    Climate Change and the Far Right

    by Sam Moore, Alex Roberts ...
    The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them?This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right, after years of denying the ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • A Nation and Not a Rabble

    The Irish Revolution 1913–1923

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    The renowned Irish historian delivers "an excellent scholarly reevaluation" of the 1916 Easter Rebellion and the turbulent decade that followed ( Library Journal).On Easter Monday of 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood launched an armed uprising against British rule that would continue for six days. But Easter Rising was only the beginning of an ongoing revolutionary struggle. In A Nation and ... Read more

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  • Dream Super-Express

    A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train

    by Jessamyn Abel ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen—the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"—represents the bold aspirations of a nation rebranding itself after military defeat, but also the deep problems caused by the unbridled postwar drive for economic growth. ... Read more

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  • The Road Not Taken

    How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, 1381-1926

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years has it known a true revolution - one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with Britain's European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is dramatic - all have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war and experienced fundamental change to their ruling ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Global Mobilities

    Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

    Edited by Amy K. Levin ...
    Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Oliver Cromwell

    by John Morrill ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD