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  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution

    by Olwen Hufton ...
    Series series Heritage
    The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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  • Reading Lolita in Tehran

    A Memoir in Books

    by Azar Nafisi ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • ONE OF THE BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE CENTURY*In this celebrated modern classic, a former teacher in revolutionary Iran tells the extraordinary true story of the women who risked their lives to study Western literature in her living room.“Stunning . . . a literary life raft on Iran’s fundamentalist sea.”—Margaret Atwood, author ... Read more

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  • A Road Unforeseen

    Women Fight the Islamic State

    by Meredith Tax ...
    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders.A Road Unforeseen recounts the dramatic, underreported history of the Rojava Kurds, whose all ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Revolutionary Summer

    The Birth of American Independence

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian“Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history.” —USA TodayThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Reflections on the Revolution in France

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • American Spring

    Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

    by Walter R. Borneman ...
    A vibrant look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals**.**When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4)

    The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland

    by Ian McBride ...
    Series Book 4 - New Gill History of Ireland
    The eighteenth century is in many ways the most problematic era in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700 to 1775 have been short-changed by historians, who have concentrated overwhelmingly on the last quarter of the period. Professor Ian McBride's survey, the fourth in the New Gill History of Ireland series, seeks to correct that balance. At the same time it provides an accessible and ... Read more

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  • Why Women Will Save the Planet

    by Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    Cities across the globe are growing fast. Today many are environmental nightmares with polluted air, excessive energy consumption and an absence of nature. But big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental stability – if we empower women.This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Forgotten Women: The Leaders

    by Zing Tsjeng, Zhi Ying Tsjeng ...
    Series series Forgotten Women
    Selected for the Evening Standard present gift guide of the year'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100 'Here's to no more forgotten women.' Evening StandardThe women who shaped and were erased from our history.The ... Read more

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  • The Friends of Liberty

    The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution

    by Albert Goodwin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The French Revolution
    This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Dreams of Equality

    Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co ... Read more

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  • Women, Resistance and Revolution

    A History Of Women And Revolution In The Modern World

    by Sheila Rowbotham ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example fit to inspire today ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD