Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 14 results for “ira katznelson”
Skip side bar filters

  • City Trenches

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    The urban crisis of the 1960s revived a dormant social activism whose protagonists placed their hoped for radical change and political effectiveness in community action. Ironically, the insurgents chose the local community as their terrain for a political battle that in reality involved a few strictly local issues. They failed to achieve their goals, Ira Katznelson argues, not so much because they ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • When Affirmative Action Was White

    An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    “Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearRedefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Desolation and Enlightenment

    Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war’s devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Desolation and Enlightenment

    Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war’s devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Liberalism's Crooked Circle

    Letters to Adam Michnik

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics. It speaks to the intellectual and political weaknesses within the liberal tradition that have put the United States at the mercy of libertarian, authoritarian populist, nakedly racist, and traditionalist elitist versions of the right-wing; and it seeks to identify resources ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Desolation and Enlightenment

    Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Religious Conversion

    History, Experience and Meaning

    by Ira Katznelson, Miri Rubin ...
    Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or large. It may be the result of active missionary efforts, instrumental decisions, or intellectual or spiritual attraction to a ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    When Affirmative Action Was White

    An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Religion and Democracy in the United States

    Danger or Opportunity?

    Edited by Alan Wolfe, Ira Katznelson ...
    The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues such as abortion is fueled by opposition in the Catholic Church and among conservative Protestants, candidates for the presidency are questioned about their religious beliefs, and the separation of church and state remains hotly contested. While the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Working-Class Formation

    Ninteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States

    Edited by Ira Katznelson, Aristide R. Zolberg ...
    Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes. Focusing principally on France. Germany, and the United States, ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Religion and the Political Imagination

    Edited by Ira Katznelson, Gareth Stedman Jones ...
    The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD