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  • In Her Own Words

    Stories from a century of British women’s everyday lives – from the Mass Observation Archive

    by Hester Barron, Fiona Courage ...
    With a foreword by Kate MosseA century of British women's everyday experiences, drawn from the Mass Observations Archive, and published for its 90th anniversaryThe Mass Observation Archive is Britain's richest historical collection of everyday life and May 2027 will mark its 90th anniversary. Drawing from this remarkable treasure trove, In Her Own Words will uncover and explore the daily reality ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The social world of the school

    Education and community in interwar London

    by Hester Barron ...
    This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe, c. 1870-1950

    Raising the Nation

    Edited by Hester Barron, Claudia Siebrecht ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This innovative collection draws on original research to explore the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their representatives across a range of European contexts; from democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist Italy. The authors pay close attention to the various relationships and dynamics between parents and the state, showing that the different parties ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    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

    $7.29 USD

  • Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe

    A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day

    by Associate Professor Annette F. Timm, Joshua A. Sanborn ...
    Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history, but also of European history more widely, as considerations of gender illuminate our understanding of historical change ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Talking Anarchy

    by Colin Ward, David Goodway ...
    Of all political views, anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe

    A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day

    by Associate Professor Annette F. Timm, Joshua A. Sanborn ...
    At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deeply connected subjects over the last 250 years. Incorporating a blend of history and historiography, Annette F. Timm and Joshua A. Sanborn write engagingly on gender and sexuality in a way that ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • What Is Anarchism?

    An Introduction

    by Donald Rooum, Andrej Grubacic ...
    An illustrated introduction to the development of anarchist thought, featuring selections from Errico Malatesta, Peter Kropotkin, Max Stirner, Emma Goldman, Charlotte Wilson, Michael Bakunin, Rudolf Rocker, Alexander Berkman, Colin Ward, Albert Meltzer and many others. This edition has been enlarged and updated for a modern audience. This useful compendium was compiled and edited by the late ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • Histories of Suicide

    International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

    by John Weaver, David Wright ...
    Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to growing concern amongst health care practitioners and policy experts, relatively little is known ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • A Suitable Amount of Crime

    by Nils Christie ...
    Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that crime is a fluid and shallow concept - acts that could be construed as criminal are unlimited and crime is therefore in endless supply. It should not be forgotten that there are alternatives, both in the definition ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    $45.99 USD