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Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England by Derek Roebuck 9780957215313
RRP: $84.00$69.45Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people of all kinds used mediation and arbitration routinely to help resolve their differences. Kings and poor widows were parties. Kings and yeomen arbitrated... -
Dangerous Arts by Royal Armouries 9780948092817
RRP: $27.28$18.88The Royal Armouries' stunning collection of arms and armour provides a unique historical perspective on visual and material culture from across the world. Both intricate and elaborate, these items are a magnificent testament to fashion, craftsmanship and... -
Privilege and Policy: A History of Community Clinics in Saskatchewan by Stan Rands 9780889772908
RRP: $52.50$49.94The introduction of medicare in Saskatchewan marks a dividing point in the history of the province and Canada. Before 1962, access to medical care was predicated on ability to pay and private health insurance. After 1962, access to needed medical care... -
Baba'S Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada by Michael Mucz 9780888645142
RRP: $62.98$50.65Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba's Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this incomparable... -
Muilnean Beaga Leodhais Finlay MacLeod 9780861523610
RRP: $15.75$14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861523610Author Finlay MacLeodFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 286mm * 224mm * 7mm -
Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh 9780850366518
RRP: $52.50$47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850366518Author Joyce L. KornbluhFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Structure, Culture, and History: Recent Issues in Social Theory by Sing C. Chew 9780847698370
$133.75Offers the newest research developments and theory in the re-emerging field of structural analysis. The first section provides an overview and appraisal of the history and future of structural analysis. Subsequent sections focus on culture, historical... -
Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church by Jill Peterfeso 9780823288281
RRP: $199.50$172.89This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The... -
A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal by Mark W. Deets 9780821426005
RRP: $138.60$119.55A historiographical analysis of human geography and a social history of nationalist separatism and cultural identity in southern Senegal. This book is a spatial history of the conflict in Casamance, the portion of Senegal located south of The Gambia... -
Alexander Robey Shepherd: The Man Who Built the Nation's Capital by John Peter Richardson 9780821422502
RRP: $50.38$43.76With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.'s, public works czar (1871-74) built the infrastructure of the nation's capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War... -
Alexander Robey Shepherd: The Man Who Built the Nation's Capital by John Peter Richardson 9780821422496
RRP: $105.00$91.16With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.'s, public works czar (1871-74) built the infrastructure of the nation's capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War... -
The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics by Giacomo Macola 9780821422113
RRP: $138.60$120.39Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa... -
The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon by Melvin Patrick Ely 9780813920924
$56.57Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in 1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy in which a pair of white actors portrayed the adventures of two black men making a new life in the big city. Meanwhile, some... -
Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science by Terence Keel 9780804795401
RRP: $191.10$165.73Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought... -
Pleasure and Panic: New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs by Dan Malleck 9780774867528
RRP: $62.98$55.65Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and... -
Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia by Lynne Marks 9780774833455
RRP: $62.98$56.49This book will hold broad appeal for students and scholars of social history, cultural history, BC and Canadian history, religious studies, women's studies, immigration and migration studies, Asian studies, and labour and the Left.Book InformationISBN... -
Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia's Social Policy by Lisa Pasolli 9780774829236
RRP: $172.20$149.65This book will interest students and scholars of Canadian women's and gender history, welfare history, and those interested in the contemporary politics of child care and working motherhood. Practitioners and policy analysts working in the child care,... -
When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws by Dan Malleck 9780774829199
RRP: $69.30$61.85Scholars and students of the history of medicine, the history of law, and social history, will enjoy this engagingly written book about drugs, alcohol, tobacco use, and legislation in Canada. This book will also be of interest to professionals who work... -
According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury's Ukrainian Community by Stacey Zembrzycki 9780774826969
RRP: $58.78$50.69Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba's stories about Sudbury's small but polarized Ukrainian community and what... -
Private Women and the Public Good: Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846-93 by Carmen J. Nielson 9780774826921
RRP: $50.38$43.76This work will be of interest to students of Canadian history, women's studies, and gender studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774826921Author Carmen J. NielsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of... -
Private Women and the Public Good: Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846-93 by Carmen J. Nielson 9780774826914
RRP: $163.80$142.51This work will be of interest to students of Canadian history, women's studies, and gender studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774826914Author Carmen J. NielsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of... -
Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada by Ian Milligan 9780774826877
RRP: $172.20$149.65This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian history, the global sixties, student and youth movements, and labour history.Book InformationISBN 9780774826877Author Ian MilliganFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint University of... -
The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 by Sharon Wall 9780774816403
RRP: $58.78$50.69Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern... -
Latin America's Middle Class: Unsettled Debates and New Histories by David S. Parker 9780739168486
RRP: $205.80$179.97As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and... -
The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Conflict: Intellectual Struggles between Blacks and Jews at Mid-Century by Glen Anthony Harris 9780739166833
RRP: $205.80$179.97The history of Black-Jewish relations from the beginning of the twentieth century shows that, while they were sometimes partners of convenience, there was also a deep suspicion of each other that broke out into frequent public exchanges. During the... -
Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity by Tina Johnson 9780739164402
RRP: $214.20$187.19Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity (1911-1949) is the study of a pivotal period in which traditional midwifery, marked by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly... -
Criminal to Critic: Reflections amid the American Experiment by James E. Palombo 9780739129098
RRP: $214.20$187.19This autobiographical discourse traces the experiences of James Palombo from drug-dealing wise-guy and convict to social worker, professor, and world traveler. Along the way, and through his struggles, Palombo speaks to a variety of important issues... -
Africa in Europe: Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization by Stefan Goodwin 9780739127667
RRP: $111.30$98.11Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international... -
Africa in Europe: Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization by Stefan Goodwin 9780739127650
RRP: $262.50$229.64Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international... -
Palestine in the Egyptian Press: From al-Ahram to al-Ahali by Ghada Hashem Talhami 9780739117859
RRP: $111.30$98.11Palestine in the Egyptian Press follows the evolution of the press institution in modern Egypt, as well as of the prominent role the Palestine question played in its rise to political prominence. Through the lens of the press, author Ghada Hashem Talhami... -
The Asian American Century by Warren I. Cohen 9780674007659
RRP: $75.50$60.82In a perceptive and engaging meditation on the relationship between East Asia and the United States, Warren I. Cohen examines how cultural influences have transformed - and benefited - both Asians and Americans. Cohen reviews the role of the United... -
Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question by Lazaro Lima 9780520300897
RRP: $33.58$27.11Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country's first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice's rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While... -
The Black Revolution on Campus by Martha Biondi 9780520282186
RRP: $52.50$41.14The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown,... -
A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Pulido 9780520270817
RRP: $44.10$34.92"A People's Guide to Los Angeles" offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.'s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred... -
Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 by K. O'Donnell 9780333997437
$99.23This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory these interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the... -
Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe by Iveta Jusova 9780253021892
RRP: $138.60$120.39In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech... -
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond by L. Benjamin Rolsky 9780231193627
RRP: $184.80$144.38For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by "culture wars" waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives have been cast as the instigators of such... -
Race and Secularism in America by Jonathon S. Kahn 9780231174916
RRP: $58.80$45.78This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious... -
Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right by Whitney Strub 9780231148863
RRP: $184.80$145.22While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and... -
The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin 9780231124935
RRP: $58.80$45.78"The tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide." So writes Todd Gitlin about the aftermath of the Vietnam War in this collection of writings that...