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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “francesca trivellato”
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  • The Promise and Peril of Credit

    What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

    by Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life
    How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    by Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    by Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Religion and Trade

    Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900

    Edited by Francesca Trivellato, Leor Halevi, Catia Antunes ...
    Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution'

    by Bernard J. Bergen ...
    This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt were the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times. As Bergen describes ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Debt

    The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

    by David Graeber ...
    Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

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  • Hannah Arendt

    A Life of the Mind

    by Thomas Meyer ...
    Translated by Shelley Frisch ...
    The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth centuryDrawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, and the United States, where she was a citizen from 1950—Thomas Meyer tells the story of an ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

    On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy

    Edited by Jacob Golomb, Robert S. Wistrich ...
    An examination of the association between the influential and controversial philosopher's ideas and fascistic beliefs.Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Übermensch endowed with exceptional mental qualities. What can such a thinker have in common with the fascistic manipulation of the masses for ... Read more

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    by David S. Landes ...
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  • Zamenhof. The Life, Works and Ideas of the Author of Esperanto

    by Aleksander Korzhenkov ...
    Released to the public for the first time in in 1887, Esperanto had its specific origins in the fertile brain of a single individual, Zamenhof, and in the particular circum stan ces into which he was born and came of age. It is the story of these origins that Aleksander Korzhenkov's biography sets out to tell. -- That biography was originally published in Esperanto; the present version, in Ian ... Read more

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  • Culture

    The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

    by Martin Puchner ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"A mighty, polymathic work, equally at home in all four corners of the globe.…It is a gift to be savored." —Chris Vognar, Boston GlobeIn Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust as Culture

    by Imre Kertész ...
    Translated by Thomas Cooper ...
    Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the personal and the historical.In The Holocaust as Culture,Kertész recalls his ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD