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  • Heroines in History

    A Thousand Faces

    by Katie Pickles ...
    Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesising and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history.Responding to Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, Katie Pickles explores the idea of a transcultural heroine archetype that recurs through time. Each chapter addresses an archetypal ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Christchurch Ruptures

    by Katie Pickles ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling.In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what was lost that February day, drawing out the different threads of Christchurch’s colonial history ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Female imperialism and national identity

    Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire

    by Katie Pickles ...
    Through a study of the British Empire’s largest women’s patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women’s involvement in imperialism; on the history of ‘conservative’ women’s organisations; on women’s interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Heroines in History

    A Thousand Faces

    by Katie Pickles ...
    Narrated by Naomi Madelin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesizing, and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history.Responding to Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, Katie Pickles explores the idea of a transcultural heroine archetype that recurs through time. Each chapter addresses an archetypal ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • New Zealand's empire

    Edited by Katie Pickles, Catharine Coleborne ...
    Series Book 131 - Studies in Imperialism
    This edited collection investigates New Zealand’s history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country’s spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica.The book critically revises our understanding of ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Guiding Modern Girls

    Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s

    by Kristine Alexander ...
    Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts, which included the aftermath of the First World War, the enfranchisement of women, and the rise of the flapper or “Modern Girl.” Out of this milieu, the Girl Guide movement emerged as a response to popular concerns ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700

    Edited by Deborah Simonton ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman’s role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century.In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of ‘national’ histories and provide the insight and perspective of a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Canadian

    The People We Are

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians.What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret Walters ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 12 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • An Act of Genocide

    Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women

    by Karen Stote ...
    During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Pierre Trudeau Mini Biography

    by eBios ...
    Series series Mini Biographies
    Pierre Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. Trudeau began his political career as a lawyer, intellectual, and activist in Quebec politics. In the 1960s, he entered federal politics by joining the Liberal Party of Canada. He was appointed as Lester Pearson's Parliamentary Secretary, and later became his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD