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  • Yearbook of Transnational History

    (2024), Volume 7

    by Susanne Lachenicht, Susanne Lachenicht, Annika Bärwald, Trevor Burnard, Jessica Cronshagen, Edidiong Emem Ekefre, Baher Ibrahim, Fabrice Langrognet, Jessica Vance Roitman, Jan Rupp0 ...
    The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This seventh volume brings together examples of four different world migration systems, that of the Black Atlantic, of early modern religious migrations, exile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and twenty-first century refugee systems, thus encompassing more than ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Neighbours of Passage

    A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932

    by Fabrice Langrognet ...
    Series series Microhistories
    The French edition of Neighbours of Passage has been awarded Le Grand Prix des Rendez-vous de l'histoire 2024.The book is a sociocultural microhistory of migrants. From the 1880s to the 1930s, it traces the lives of the occupants of a housing complex located just north of the French capital, in the heart of the Plaine-Saint-Denis. Starting in the 1870s, that industrial suburb became a magnet for ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Great Wave : 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

    $20.89 USD

  • The Great Wave

    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

    $21.89 USD

  • The Empire Within

    Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

    by Sean Mills ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe

    Productive Entanglements

    Edited by Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren, Morgane Labbé ...
    Series series Routledge Open History
    Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare ... Read more

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  • 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

    $26.59 USD

  • 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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  • Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

    A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

    by Nancy L. Green, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James, Alexander Keyssar ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufacturing sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Feel of the City

    Experiences of Urban Transformation

    by Nicolas Kenny ...
    At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Fatal Isolation

    The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

    by Richard C. Keller ...
    In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003, leaving 15,000 dead. They died alone in Paris and its suburbs, and were then buried at public ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • A Social Laboratory for Modern France

    The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

    by Janet R. Horne ...
    As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological ... Read more

    $25.19 USD