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“frank van vree”

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  • Site of Deportation, Site of Memory

    The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust

    Edited by Hetty Berg, David Duindam, Frank van Vree ...
    The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps. Before the war, the theatre had been an example of Jewish integration in the Netherlands, and after the war it became a memorial for the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. This book is ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Performing the Past

    Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe

    by Jay Winter, Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree ...
    Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them ... Read more

    $120.92 CAD

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  • The Betrayal of Anne Frank

    A Cold Case Investigation

    by Rosemary Sullivan ...
    Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Over thirty million people have readThe Diary of a Young Girl, the journal that teenaged Anne Frank kept during World ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • On History

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    The theory and practice of history and its relevance to the modern world, by Britains greatest radical historian. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Borderlines

    The fascinating history of Europe in 29 borders from leading political analyst and Tim Marshall's 'borders expert'

    by Lewis Baston ...
    A timely, enthralling history of Europe unlike any other: perfect for fans of A History of the World in 47 Borders and Prisoners of Geography.'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, co-host of The Rest Is History podcastEurope's internal borders have rarely been 'natural'; they have more often been created by accident or force.In ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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  • Hitler at Home

    by Despina Stratigakos ...
    A look at Adolf Hitler's residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator's private persona both within Germany and abroad.Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Good Living Street

    The fortunes of my Viennese family

    by Tim Bonyhady ...
    From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval.In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for ... Read more

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  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Fifty Key Texts in Art History

    Edited by Diana Newall, Grant Pooke ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an international range of contributors , including art historians, artists, curators and gallerists.Arranged ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD