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  • Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community

    Culture, Place and Narrative

    by A. Monchamp ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    A trailblazing study of the social bandit or rebelBANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • How to Stop Living and Start Worrying

    Conversations with Carl Cederstrm

    by Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström ...
    The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers but self-help gurus, who frantically champion the individual's quest for self-expression and self-realization; the desire to become authentic.Against these new age sophistries, How to Stop Living and ... Read more

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  • The crusaders

    A story of the war for the holy sepulchre

    by Alfred j. Church ...
    Series series Bluehen
    We find in the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, a monk of St. Alban's Abbey in the thirteenth century, the story of a Jew who had been doomed, for some insult offered to Christ, to live till the Second Corning. He had heard the story from an Armenian bishop on a visit to England, who said that he had seen the man and talked with him. One of his characteristics was that he was accustomed to tell ... Read more

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  • Languages of Belonging

    Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir

    by Chitralekha Zutshi ...
    Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history and identity in terms of the ahistorical concept of Kashmiriyat, or a uniquely Kashmiri cultural identity. This book, in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Fordham

    A History and Memoir, Revised Edition

    by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. ...
    Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution—and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities in the country. Its story is also the story of New York, especially the Bronx, andFordham’s commitment to the city during its rise, fall, and rebirth. It’s a story of Jesuits, soldiers, alumni who fought in World Wars, chaplains, teachers, and administrators who ... Read more

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  • The Priestly Kingdom

    Social Ethics as Gospel

    by John Howard Yoder ...
    In this volume of essays John Howard Yoder projects a vision of Christian social ethics rooted in historical community and illuminated by scripture. Drawing upon scriptural accounts of the early church, he demonstrates the Christian community's constant need for reform and change. Yoder first examines the scriptural and theoretical foundations of Christian social ethics. While personally committed ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memory as Colonial Capital

    Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English

    Edited by Erica L. Johnson, Éloïse Brezault ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

    Edited by M. Beyen, B. Deseure ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the ... Read more

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  • Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image

    by Caterina Albano ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Throughout this book we discover what our idea of memory would be without the moving image. This thought provoking analysis examines how the medium has informed modern and contemporary models of memory. The book examines the ways in which cinematic optic procedures inform an understanding of memory processes. Critical to the reciprocity of mind and screen is forgetting and the problematic that it ... Read more

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  • Historical Consciousness

    The Remembered Past

    by John Lukacs ...
    One of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. Consciously or not, history has become a form of thought applied to every facet of human experience; every field of human action can be studied, described, or understood through its history. In this extraordinary analysis of the meaning of the remembered past, John Lukacs discusses the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD