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  • Dissenting Traditions

    Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History

    Edited by Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy, Julia Smith ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Canada's Legal Pasts

    Looking Foreward, Looking Back

    by Nick Austin, Eric H. Reiter, Christopher Shorey, Angela Fernandez, Catharine MacMillan, Alexandra Havrylyshyn, Jean-Phillipe Garneau, Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Dominique Clement, Louis A. Knafla ...
    Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Four Unruly Women

    Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada’s Most Notorious Prison

    by Ted McCoy ...
    Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s most notorious prison.In this shocking and heartbreaking book, Ted McCoy tell these women’s stories of incarceration and resistance in poignant detail. The four women served sentences at different ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Hard Time

    Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Ted McCoy ...
    Prisons have always existed in a climate of crisis. The penitentiary emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century as an enlightened alternative to brute punishment, one that would focus on rehabilitation and the inculcation of mainstream social values. Central to this goal was physical labour. The penitentiary was constructed according to a plan that would harness the energies of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    A Brief Introduction

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Marx

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Presenting Marx as a philosopher primarily concerned with human ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • First World War

    Still No End in Sight

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Anarchism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Ruth Kinna ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Would you want a world without government?In this clear and penetrating study, Ruth Kinna goes directly to the heart of this controversial ideology, explaining the influences that have shaped anarchism and the different tactics and strategies that have been used by anarchists throughout history to achieve their ends. Kinna covers themes both historical and acutely contemporary, including: Could ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The History Manifesto

    by Jo Guldi, David Armitage ...
    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • A Crooked Line

    From Cultural History to the History of Society

    by Geoff Eley ...
    "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    by David Linden, Nick Broten ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics – which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the promises of socialism – Hayek’s carefully constructed argument is a fine example of the importance of good reasoning in critical thinking.Reasoning is ... Read more

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