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  • From The Kaiser To Weimar

    THE NAZIS, #1

    by Ian McKay ...
    Series Book 1 - THE NAZIS
    The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile, in Holland. The Hohenzollern Empire was dead and it was a difficult thing for the German people to accept. Germany was trying to adjust to the fact that their country had lost the war and was now a ... Read more

    $3.21 USD

  • The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rebels, Reds, Radicals

    Rethinking Canada’s Left History

    by Ian McKay ...
    In this brilliant and thoroughly engaging work Ian McKay sets out to revamp the history of Canadian socialism. Drawing on models of left politics in Marx and Gramsci, he outlines a fresh agenda for exploration of the Canadian left.In rejecting the usual paths of sectarian or sentimental histories, McKay draws on contemporary cultural theory to argue for an inventive strategy of “reconnaissance.” ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Quest of the Folk

    by Ian McKay ...
    The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure simple idyllic people is false argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Warrior Nation

    Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization.The ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    Narrated by John Lane ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 17 min

    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Quest of the Folk, CLS Edition

    Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

    by Ian McKay ...
    Series Book 212 - Carleton Library Series
    The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a folk ideology into the art and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Left Transnationalism

    The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions

    Edited by Oleksa Drachewych, Ian McKay ...
    Series Book 4 - Rethinking Canada in the World
    In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global communist movement. From the very beginning, the Comintern committed itself to ending world imperialism, supporting colonial liberation, and promoting racial equality.Coinciding with the centenary of the Comintern's founding, Left Transnationalism highlights the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Crisis and Contagion

    Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19

    Edited by Ian McKay ...
    Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and Merrill Singer explore capitalism’s organic crisis and the ways it has made this and future pandemics inevitable. Nora Loreto, Tithi Bhattacharya, Chandrima Chakraborty, Merlin Chowkwanyun, and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Llewellyn's 2025 Sabbats Almanac

    Samhain 2024 to Mabon 2025

    by Llewellyn, Irene Glasse, Ariana Serpentine, Enfys J. Book, Dodie Graham McKay, Sheri Barker, Ian Chambers, Nathan M. Hall, Michael Herkes, Lupa, Dallas Jennifer Cobb, Elizabeth Barrette, Charlie Rainbow Wolf, Tomás Prower ...
    Series Book 11 - Llewellyn's 2025 Calendars, Almanacs & Datebooks
    Uncork New Inspiration for Sublime Seasonal CelebrationsRituals • Recipes • Crafts • Pagan Lore • Planetary GuidanceBubbling with innovative ideas and old-world wisdom, this almanac guides you through the Wheel of the Year, offering enticing insights and alternative traditions. Energize your sabbat observances with festive spells, rituals, crafts, and recipes supplied by prestigious practitioners. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Left Transnationalism

    The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions

    Edited by Oleksa Drachewych, Ian McKay ...
    Series Book 4 - Rethinking Canada in the World
    In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global communist movement. From the very beginning, the Comintern committed itself to ending world imperialism, supporting colonial liberation, and promoting racial equality.Coinciding with the centenary of the Comintern's founding, Left Transnationalism highlights the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The New British Politics

    by Ian Budge, David Mckay, Kenneth Newton, John Bartle ...
    The New British Politics is one of the most comprehensive and successful introductions to British politics ever published. Now available in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, this clear, lively and authoritative text has an emphasis on law and order and the historical context of British politics. Written by internationally-known specialists, the book combines incisive and original ... Read more

    $73.99 USD