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  • Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015

    Power, Place and People

    Edited by Esme Cleall ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Disability History
    This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring global locations as disparate as the Caribbean, Kenya, Mauritius, Natal and Poland as well as taking new approaches to Britain and the US.Global Histories of Disability seeks to address issues including colonialism, disability, the body, forced labour and indigeneity. A further key issue that reoccurs throughout the volume is the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Colonising Disability

    Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914

    by Esme Cleall ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall explores how disability increasingly became associated with 'difference' and argues that it did so through intersecting with other categories of otherness such as race. Philanthropic, legal, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Heritage as Community Research

    Legacies of Co-production

    Series series Connected Communities
    Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvement with the past, undertaken with or by the communities for whom it is relevant, the book uses a diverse range of case studies, with many chapters co-written between academics and community ... Read more

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    How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young People

    by Richard Hil ...
    Series series Welfare and Society
    The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of vulnerable children and young people. However, while public attention has focused on ... Read more

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  • Ruling Minds

    Psychology in the British Empire

    by Erik Linstrum ...
    At its zenith in the early twentieth century, the British Empire ruled nearly one-quarter of the world’s inhabitants. As they worked to exercise power in diverse and distant cultures, British authorities relied to a surprising degree on the science of mind. Ruling Minds explores how psychology opened up new possibilities for governing the empire. From the mental testing of workers and soldiers to ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Subverting Empire

    Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World

    Edited by Will Jackson, Emily Manktelow ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a phenomenon that remains only dimly understood. ... Read more

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  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health

    International Perspectives, 1840-2010

    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and were among the chief reasons for committal to an asylum. Significant analysis ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Migration and Mental Health

    Past and Present

    Edited by Marjory Harper ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better understood, yet the terminology is often vague and the issues are wide-ranging. Getting to grips with them requires tools drawn from ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled

    by Mark Milke ...
    From assaults on historical figures such as John A. Macdonald to cancel culture and charges that Canada is a genocidal nation-state, the country that every generation and every immigrant built is now facing routine and corrosive attacks.How did this happen?In this new book, twenty critical thinkers provide answers: we are awash in relentless grievance narratives and utopians who expect Canada’s ... Read more

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  • Disability and Society

    Disability and Society: Ideological and Historical Dimensions explores the changing relationship between disability and society in Western culture from early modern times to the present, with a particular emphasis on Ireland. The author identifies the main ideologies and practices that have shaped the relationship between disability and society, describes how these emerged over time and discusses ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Colonialism

    A Moral Reckoning

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West’s colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Intellectuals and Race

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

    $19.99 USD