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  • The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe

    Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960

    by Miel Groten ...
    Series series Landscape and Heritage Studies
    Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial networks between metropole and colonies, in cities as diverse as Glasgow, Hamburg, or Paris, numerous ... Read more

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  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
    Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess ... Read more

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  • Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

    History of a Postcolonial Defeat

    by Bénédicte Savoy ...
    Translated by Susanne Meyer-Abich ...
    A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Why Switzerland?

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    Revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines the complicated voting system that allows citizens to add, strike out, or vote more than once for candidates, with extremely complicated systems of proportional representation; a collective and consensual executive leadership in both state ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Feeling Political

    Emotions and Institutions since 1789

    by Ute Frevert, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Francesco Buscemi, Philipp Nielsen, Agnes Arndt, Michael Amico, Karsten Lichau, Hannah Malone, Julia Wambach, Juliane Brauer, Caroline Moine ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its ... Read more

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  • A Tiny Spot on the Earth

    The Political Culture of the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Translated by Vivien Collingwood ...
    by Piet de Rooy ...
    In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the 'polder model' often used to describe economic and social policymaking based on consensus is a myth. Instead, modern political culture in the Dutch Low Countries began with a revolution and is rife with rivalries among political and ideological factions. De Rooy argues that ... Read more

    $91.99 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

  • The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation

    Antiquity to Modernity

    by Miles Glendinning ...
    Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Urban Modernity

    Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

    by Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, Morris Low ...
    How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Creating Kashubia

    History, Memory, and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community

    by Joshua Blank ...
    Series Book 38 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    In recent years, over one million Canadians have claimed Polish heritage - a significant population increase since the first group of Poles came from Prussian-occupied Poland and settled in Wilno, Ontario, west of Ottawa in 1858. For over a century, descendants from this community thought of themselves as Polish, but this began to change in the 1980s due to the work of a descendant priest who ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany

    Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Workers Culture in Imperial Germany represents the first alternative approach to the study of workers' culture in Imperial Germany. It is also the first comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry. The central concern of the book is the emergence of a distinct workers' culture which provided a disparate and heterogeneous working class with a focus of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Histories of Tourism

    Representation, Identity and Conflict

    Edited by Prof. John K. Walton ...
    Series Book 6 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This collection of essays develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD