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  • Streetlife

    The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Leif Jerram ...
    The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Streetlife

    The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Leif Jerram ...
    The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Age of Empire

    1875-1914

    THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; revolt and revolution emerging on the outskirts of society; a time of profound identity crisis for ... Read more

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  • Vienna

    How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some ... Read more

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  • The Vertigo Years

    Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914

    by Philipp Blom ...
    The most breathtaking work of history since Paris 1919.Europe, early in the 20th century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The hot topics of the day — terrorism and globalization, immigration, consumerism, the lack of moral values, and rivaling superpowers — could make one forget that it is a century ago that this era vanished into the trenches of the Somme and ... Read more

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  • Anarchy in Action

    by Colin Ward ...
    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • After the Berlin Wall

    Putting Two Germanys Back Together Again

    The Berlin Wall, one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War, fell on 9 November 1989. It would be another year before East and West Germany were officially reunified, but on this momentous day Germans from both sides flocked to the wall in celebration. Once the euphoria had died down, the unimaginable task of putting East and West back together began.For almost three decades the ... Read more

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  • The Swastika and The Maple Leaf: Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirties

    In the turbulent 1930s, Canada faced a political undercurrent few remember today — the rise of homegrown fascist movements. While Hitler's shadow fell across Europe, small but vocal groups in Canada embraced his ideology, rallying in city streets, spreading propaganda, and testing the limits of the nation's democratic resolve.In The Swastika and The Maple Leaf, historian Lita-Rose Betcherman ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old Gods, New Enigmas

    Marx's Lost Theory

    by Mike Davis ...
    Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of ... Read more

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  • Fractured Times

    Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with ... Read more

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  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Anarchy and Art

    From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    by Allan Antliff ...
    Allan Antliff is the Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde, has written extensively for the anarchist press, and is currently contributing editor to the Alternative Press Review and art editor of Anarchist Studies. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus