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  • Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World

    “The King is Listening”

    Edited by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, Matthew Gerber ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion.The overall goal of this volume is to elaborate a more sophisticated "social history of colonialism" by focusing largely on the eighteenth ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War

    Dardanella and Peter

    by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during World War I. Through an analysis of their extensive daily correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers the couple’s changing attitudes to the intersection of sexuality and religion, to marriage and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Sixties and Beyond

    Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000

    by Nancy Christie, Stephen J. Heathorn, Michael Gauvreau ...
    In the decades following the Second World War, North America and Western Europe experienced widespread secularization and dechristianization; many scholars have pinpointed the 1960s as a pivotally important period in this decline. The Sixties and Beyond examines the scope and significance of dechristianization in the western world between 1945 and 2000.A thematically wide-ranging and ... Read more

    $73.49 USD

  • Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada

    by Michael Gauvreau ...
    Changing social and cultural strategies of Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial society and challenges conventional chronologies of religious change. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965

    A Social History of Religion in Canada

    by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau ...
    Religious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural development of Canadian society across regional and linguistic lines.By shifting their focus beyond ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Hand of God

    Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971

    by Michael Gauvreau ...
    Series Book 243 - Carleton Library Series
    Set against a background of intense religious and cultural change and tensions over the meanings of nationalism and federalism in both Quebec and Canada, Michael Gauvreau's The Hand of God traces the emergence of Claude Ryan as a public intellectual. This is the first comprehensive biography of Ryan based on his personal papers and extensive writings as a social commentator, editorialist, and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada

    by Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert ...
    Series Book 45 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic and popular in English and French Canada, as well as among immigrants, well into the twentieth ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    by Eva-Marie Prag, Joseph Tendler ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that ‘childhood,’ as we understand it today – a special time that requires special efforts and resources – is an invention of the 19th century, and that before that date ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Between Women

    Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

    by Sharon Marcus ...
    Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • When Memory Speaks

    Exploring the Art of Autobiography

    by Jill Ker Conway ...
    J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Religion in the Contemporary World

    A Sociological Introduction

    by Alan Aldridge ...
    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • City of Dreadful Delight

    Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

    by Judith R. Walkowitz ...
    Series series Women in Culture and Society
    From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the ... Read more

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