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  • The Social Life of Memory

    Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco

    Edited by Norman Saadi Nikro, Sonja Hegasy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies, elaborating an approach to memory in terms of social production and engagement. The Arab Spring is evoked to draw attention to new ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World

    by Zalmay Khalilzad ...
    Zalmay Khalilzad grew up in a traditional family in the ancient city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. As a teenager, Khalilzad spent a year as an exchange student in California, where after some initial culture shocks he began to see the merits of America's very different way of life. He believed the ideals that make American culture work, like personal initiative, community action, and respect for ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    by David W. Blight ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land

    The Vietnam War Revisited

    by Andrew Wiest ...
    Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'.“This is a superb and compelling reexamination of the major historical, political, and ethical issues that continue to smoulder many decades after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, I highly recommend Rolling ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi ...
    Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events.More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Wheel

    Inventions and Reinventions

    by Richard Bulliet ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Look of the Past

    Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice

    by Ludmilla Jordanova ...
    How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters and essays on specific artefacts – a building, a piece of sculpture, a photographic exhibition and a painted portrait – she shows how to analyse ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Detained without Cause

    Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11

    by I. Shiekh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks tell their personal stories in a collection which explores themes of transnationalism, racialization, and the global war on terror, and explains the human cost of suspending civil liberties after a wartime emergency. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mamluks in the Modern Egyptian Mind

    Changing the Memory of the Mamluks, 1919-1952

    by Il Kwang Sung ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes. It specifically examines the representations of the Mamluks from two historical periods: the Mamluk Sultanate era (1250–1517) and the Mamluks under the Ottoman era (1517–1811) focusing mostly on the years 1760–1811. Although the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Iran in the Middle East

    Transnational Encounters and Social History

    Edited by Houchang Chehabi, Peyman Jafari, Maral Jefroudi ...
    Iran's interaction with its neighbours is a topic of wide interest. But while many historical studies of the country concentrate purely on political events and high-profile actors, this book takes the opposite approach: writing history from below, it instead focuses on the role of everyday lives. Modern Iranian historiography has been dominated by ideas of nationalism, modernization, religion, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States

    by Adam Hanieh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • History Man

    The Life of R. G. Collingwood

    by Fred Inglis ...
    This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. A figure of enormous energy and ambition, he took as his subject nothing less than the whole of human ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD