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  • Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places

    Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    by Boudien de Vries ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion that ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day

    by Joshua A. Sanborn, Professor Emerita Annette F. Timm ...
    Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history, but also of European history more widely, as considerations of gender illuminate our understanding of historical change ... Read more

    $33.09 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

    Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried van der Will ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective ... Read more

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  • 19th Century Europe

    A Cultural History

    by Hannu Salmi ...
    Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is a lucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of history and culture and the ... Read more

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  • Women in the Weimar Republic

    by Helen Boak ...
    This book is the first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society. Taking the First World War as a starting point, this book explores the great changes in the lives, expectations, and perceptions of German women, with new opportunities in employment, education and political life and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Fortunes of Liberalism

    Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    From a Nobel Laureate economist, essays on classical liberalism as illustrated by the Austrian school of political economy.The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. A. Hayek, "grand old man of capitalism" and founder of the classical liberal, free-market revival which ignited and inspired these world ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation

    Antiquity to Modernity

    by Miles Glendinning ...
    Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany

    Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Workers Culture in Imperial Germany represents the first alternative approach to the study of workers' culture in Imperial Germany. It is also the first comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry. The central concern of the book is the emergence of a distinct workers' culture which provided a disparate and heterogeneous working class with a focus of ... Read more

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  • Writing National Histories

    Western Europe Since 1800

    Edited by Stefan Berger, Mark Donovan, Kevin Passmore ...
    This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and ... Read more

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  • The Emergence of Globalism

    Visions of World Order in Britain and The United States, 1939–1950

    by Or Rosenboim ...
    How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system. Without using the term "globalization," they identified a shift toward technological, ... Read more

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  • 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

    $88.99 CAD