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  • Enlightened War

    German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Waltraud Maierhofer, Wolf Kittler, Arndt Niebisch, David Colclasure, Felix Saure0, Galili Shahar1, Inge Stephan2, Johannes Birgfeld3 ...
    Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer, Beth Widmaier Capo ...
    "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body." Almost a century after Margaret Sanger wrote these words, women's reproductive rights are still hotly debated in the press and among policymakers, while film, television and other media address issues of birth control and abortion to global audiences.This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to the study of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories

    Edited by Kirsten Kumpf Baele, Waltraud Maierhofer, Doyle Stevick ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the twenty‑first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. Engaging Anne Frank with these other cases clarifies the distinct nature of the Holocaust, and we build on ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau

    A Translation of Eveline Hasler's Novel

    by Eveline Hasler ...
    Translated by Jenniefer Vanderbeek, Waltraud Maierhofer ...
    A translation of Eveline Hasler’s novel, Die Vogelmacherin— literally “The Bird-Maker Girl”—this book tells the story of three children who were prosecuted for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Europe. Challenging strict boundaries between fiction and history, Hasler’s novel draws on trial records and other archival sources that document the legal cases against these children. While the original ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Anne Frank Unbound

    Media, Imagination, Memory

    by Barbara Kishenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    "A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story." —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of CaliforniaAs millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

    Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth, Rochelle G. Saidel ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated during the Holocaust. This anthology by an interdisciplinary and international ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Birth of the Pill

    How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    **A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" • A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" • A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014"The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.**We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Inheritors

    Moving Forward from Generational Trauma

    by Gita Arian Baack, PhD ...
    Our family legacies, both positive and negative, are passed down from one generation to the next in ways that are not fully understood. This secondary form of trauma, which Gita Baack calls “Inherited Trauma,” has not received adequate attention—a failing that perpetuates cycles of pain, hatred, and violence. In The Inheritors, readers are given the opportunity to reflect on the inherited burdens ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Subcontractors of Guilt

    Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany

    by Esra Özyürek ...
    At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Extreme Gone Mainstream

    Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbolsThe past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • De-Integrate!

    A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century

    by Max Czollek ...
    Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi ...
    A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past—and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism.Max Czollek’s De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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