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  • Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Edited by Daniel Gerster, Felicity Jensz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe. Their experiences were vastly different, yet they all had in common that they were separated from their families and childhood friends for a period of time in order to sleep, eat, learn and move within the limited spatial sites of the boarding school. This book frames these ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Not So Black and White

    A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

    by Kenan Malik ...
    Is white privilege real? Does American history begin in 1619 or 1776? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? How racist is the working class? Who benefits most, when anti-racists speak in racial terms? These very different questions have all emerged from today's heated debates around race, identity and culture. The "culture wars" have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. Not So Black ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Anarchy in Action

    by Colin Ward ...
    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Anarchism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alex Prichard ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism? This Very Short Introduction provides a new point of departure for our understanding of anarchism. Prichard describes anarchism as a lived set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how anarchists have ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sisters or Strangers?

    Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition

    Edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta ...
    Series series Studies in Gender and History
    Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Darker Angels of Our Nature

    Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

    Edited by Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale ...
    In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis?In The Darker Angels of our ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Stigma

    The Machinery of Inequality

    by Imogen Tyler ...
    Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day discrimination against Muslims, refugees and the 'undeserving poor', stigma has long been a means of securing the interests of powerful elites.In this ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Feminism

    by June Hannam ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The sheer number of publications on Feminism make it difficult for students who approach the subject for the first time to gain a sense of what the main issues and interpretations are. This book addresses this by offering students an overview of feminism and its history across several countries and time periods, along with an annotated guide to direct them in their further reading.Feminism by June ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice

    All Power to the People

    by Paul Lucardie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World

    Edited by Paula S. Fass ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Foundations of Modern International Thought

    by David Armitage ...
    Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage – one of the world's leading historians of political ... Read more

    $28.69 USD