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  • Doing Recent History

    On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

    by Alan Christy, Alice Yang, David Greenberg, Eileen Boris, Gail Drakes, Jennifer Klein, Jeremy Saucier, Julius Bailey, Laura Brown, Martin Meeker, Nancy Kaiser, Shelley Lee, Willoughby Anderson ...
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    Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • All Out War

    The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class

    by Tim Shipman ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ GuardianThe only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU.This is the acclaimed inside story of the EU referendum in 2016 that takes you ... Read more

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  • The Politics of History

    by Howard Zinn ...
    This book presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction, the author responds to critics of his original work and comments further on the radicalization of history. ... Read more

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  • Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe

    Modules for History Lessons

    Edited by Uta Fenske, Daniel Groth, Klaus-Michael Guse, Bärbel P. Kuhn ...
    Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history classes in European schools. The contributions have been produced by the EU project CoDec, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

    A Journey from Language to Experience

    by Peter Icke ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently discussed and evaluated today, and his writings on the subject are often cited. However, this former ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence

    Time and Justice

    by Berber Bevernage ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence is centered around the provocative thesis that the way one ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Enormous Stories: Hard-Boiled Cleveland Journalism

    by James Renner ...
    33 Pieces of short nonfiction by James Renner. These stories were written when Renner was a reporter for Scene and the Free Times, and include profiles of famous/infamous Ohioans like Bill Watterson, Tom Batiuk, Jeff Krotine, Louis Stokes, Calvin Blocker, Dave Chappelle, Dr. Robert White, Lawrence Krauss, Bill O'Neill, and Tim Russo. There is a section devoted to scandals that features articles ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ideas and Identities

    A Festschrift for Andre Liebich

    Edited by Jaci Eisenberg, Davide Rodogno ...
    This volume gathers contributions at the intersection of history and politics. The essays, covering such topics as diverse as Italian identity in the Tientsin concession, international refugee policies in the interwar period and after, and the myths and realities of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter in independent Ukraine, show that history provides better grounding as well as a more suitable ... Read more

    $100.29 USD

  • Riot Control Vehicles

    1945–Present

    by Chris McNab ...
    Series Book 219 - New Vanguard
    Fully illustrated with dramatic archive photos and manufacturers' images, this volume covers the little-known history of riot control vehicles.It explores the world of these vehicles from 1945 through to the present day – from adapted military armoured cars such as the Humber Pig (UK) and BRDM (Soviet Union) to the fully computerized systems of the Russian Lavina-Uragan and Canadian INKAS Armored ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Prohibition

    A Concise History

    by W. J. Rorabaugh ...
    Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Paternalism in Early Victorian England

    by David Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the revival, amplification, and transformation of the ideals of paternalism as a social remedy in the Early ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance

    The Irish in Argentina

    by Sarah O'Brien ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity. The author analyzes the spoken memories and discourses of Irish-Argentine descendants to trace the socio-political evolution of a bilingual, bicultural community from World War II to the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD