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  • The Rise of Heritage

    Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914

    by Astrid Swenson ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Where does our fascination for 'heritage' originate? This groundbreaking comparative study of preservation in France, Germany and England looks beyond national borders to reveal how the idea of heritage emerged from intense competition and collaboration in a global context. Astrid Swenson follows the 'heritage-makers' from the French Revolution to the First World War, revealing the importance of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • History's People

    Personalities and the Past

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • India Discovered

    The Recovery of a Lost Civilization

    by John Keay ...
    Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Hitler of History

    by John Lukacs ...
    In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Auschwitz Report

    by Primo Levi, Leonardo De Benedetti ...
    Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery.While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.Dating from the weeks and months immediately ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Framing Public Memory

    by Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips, Bradford Vivian, Amos Kiewe, Barry Schwartz, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Edward S. Casey, Charles E. Scott, Rosa A. Eberly, Professor Barbara Biesecker0, Professor Stephen Howard Browne1, Barbie Zelizer2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Historians In Trouble

    Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

    by Jon Wiener ...
    Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman, UK) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Plea for Captain John Brown

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

    A Journey from Language to Experience

    by Peter Icke ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently discussed and evaluated today, and his writings on the subject are often cited. However, this former ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • History Meets Fiction

    by Beverley C. Southgate ...
    Series series History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
    Is history factual, or just another form of fiction?Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands?How do novelists represent historians and history?The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites.However, new hybrid forms of writing ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Crafting Preservation Criteria

    The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation

    by John H. Sprinkle, Jr. ...
    In 1966, American historic preservation was transformed by the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, which created a National Register of Historic Places. Now comprising more than 1.4 million historic properties across the country, the National Register is the official federal list of places in the United States thought to be worthy of preservation.One of the fundamental principles of ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Gender and the City before Modernity

    Edited by Lin Foxhall, Gabriele Neher ...
    Series Book 13 - Gender and History Special Issues
    Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban spaceFeatures a wide geographical and methodological ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD