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  • Science, Religion and Nationalism

    Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies

    Edited by Jaume Navarro, Kostas Tampakis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    “Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of “science” and of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

    by David Nirenberg ...
    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from "a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion" ( Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Occult Features of Anarchism

    With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples

    by Erica Lagalisse ...
    In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various 'conspiracy theories' suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Cultural Hybridity

    by Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Spanish Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jo Labanyi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque as well as in Castilian-the language that has became known as 'Spanish ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Racisms

    From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

    by Francisco Bethencourt ...
    " Racisms impresses the reader by its author's vast reading, his thoroughness and precision . . . intellectual ambition, and [its] visual and textual sources." —Peter Burke, University of CambridgeRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that ... Read more

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  • The Call of the Tribe

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by John King ...
    The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable “call of the tribe.” This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project.In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Philosophers Who Changed History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK History Changers
    This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.This book would be great if you are interested in philosophy, politics, history, and literature or would like to broaden your understanding of philosophy. Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known philosophers in their historical and cultural context, allowing ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Cultural Mobility

    A Manifesto

    by Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Županov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, Pál Nyíri, Frederike Pannewick ...
    Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Anarchist Education and the Modern School

    A Francisco Ferrer Reader

    by Francisco Ferrer, Mark Bray ...
    On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defense argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious ... Read more

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  • History in the Making

    by J. H. Elliott ...

    $29.99 CAD

  • Creationism in Europe

    by Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Peter C. Kjærgaard ...
    A history of Creationism in Europe, from its reception to its rise and the response that has followed.For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welcomed abroad, first in Australia and New Zealand, then Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere—including Europe, where creationism plays an ... Read more

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