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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marion pluskota”
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  • Policing Women

    Histories in the Western World, 1800 to 1950

    Edited by Jo Turner, Helen Johnston, Marion Pluskota ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women’s experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.Drawing on and going beyond existing knowledge about policing practices, the volume discusses how women encountered the official police, how they experienced that contact, and the outcomes of that contact in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Yearbook of Transnational History

    (2019)

    by Austin E. Loignon, Ryan Abt, Brandon Blakeslee, Liana Kirillova, Joshua D. Klein, Alexander Langstaff, Nicole Léopoldie, Gabriele Lingelbach, Muiris MacGiollabhui, Anthony J. Miller, Susanne Quitmann, Marion Pluskota ...
    The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This second volume provides readers with articles on topics such as transnational marriages, exile, soccer, and missionaries as well as on the campaigns in Communist countries for freeing the American civil-rights activist Angela Davis. These articles highlight the ... Read more

    $115.09 USD

  • Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914

    Edited by Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota, Sanne Muurling ...
    Bringing together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday context. It reveals how their socio-economic and cultural contexts provided women with 'agency' against a range of European backdrops, despite a fundamentally patriarchal criminal justice system, and ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports

    by Marion Pluskota ...
    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside Atlantic industries that attracted many migrants, both male and female, from the surrounding countryside and from abroad. The busy urban ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

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  • Along a River

    The First French-Canadian Women

    by Jan Noel ...
    French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    by Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Erotic Exchanges

    The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Nina Kushner ...
    Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Revisiting 1759

    The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective

    by Phillip Buckner, John G. Reid ...
    The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history.This cohesive ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Working Families

    Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal

    by Bettina Bradbury ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and created new points of tension within the families of the emerging working class. Here we meet the men, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver

    Edited by J. Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, John T. Saywell ...
    Series Book 10 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law
    Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history in Canada.Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

    Beginnings to 1866

    by Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, R. Blake Brown ...
    Series Book 1 - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000.The history of law includes substantive law, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD