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  • Running Away From Stalin

    The Life & Times of Alfred Hecht, Dr. PhD (h.c.)

    by Mark R Hecht ...
    This it the story of a man who lived under Stalin and Hilter before finding freedom.At the close of WWII roughly 20 million people, mostly of German descent, suffered the largest ethnic cleansing and forced migration the world had ever known. They were cast out of their homes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, or killed. Those who fled west found they could not safely stay in Western Europe ... Read more

    $10.17 USD

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  • Vienna

    How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    by Richard Cockett ...
    How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some ... Read more

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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

  • Interesting Times

    A Twentieth-Century Life

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short century” which is the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Silence on the Shore

    by Hugh Garner ...
    Series Book 19 - Voyageur Classics
    Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the books events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes ... Read more

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  • Hayek

    A Life, 1899–1950

    by Bruce Caldwell, Hansjoerg Klausinger ...
    A 2022 Economist Best Book of the Year.The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years.Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek—economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek's erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market economy ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands

    Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

    by Helen Roche ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence in 10 languages, putting fresh twists on the familiar story of World War II fighting on the Eastern Front from 1941-45. In doing so, he works to ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • A Future Without Hate or Need

    The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada

    by Ester Reiter ...
    Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses

    Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War

    by L. Ruth Klein ...
    It has been thirty years since the publication of Irving Abella and Harold Troper's seminal work None is Too Many, which documented the official barriers that kept Jewish immigrants and refugees out of Canada in the shadow of the Second World War. The book won critical acclaim, but a haunting question remained: Why did Canada act as it did in the 1930s and 1940s?Answering this question requires a ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Adam Tooze ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Second World War
    The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • The Socialist Sixties

    Crossing Borders in the Second World

    Edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker ...
    "A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies." — ChoiceThe 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) ... Read more

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  • A Wall of Our Own

    An American History of the Berlin Wall

    by Paul M. Farber ...
    Series series Studies in United States Culture
    The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for American artists, writers, and activists. During the Cold War and in the shadow of the Wall, figures such ... Read more

    $21.89 USD