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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Ticket to Freedom
Book SynopsisFocusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, the author challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation.
£24.76
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Secrets on Display Stories and Spycraft from the
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£30.56
MH - Indiana University Press Anastas Mikoyan
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£35.10
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida From SitIns to SNCC The Student Civil Rights
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college students, From Sit-Ins to SNCC brings together the work of leading civil rights scholars to offer a new and groundbreaking perspective on student-oriented activism in the 1960s.Trade Review“Central to the collection’s theme is the idea that [SNCC] was diffuse with different visions, and not a hierarchy. The approach was local, and the results hinged on the locality. . . . Adds much to the discussion of the nonviolent resistance movement.” —Choice“Provides fresh and original insights into the student protest movement of the 1960s. A must for anyone interested in the history of the SNCC or the civil rights struggle.” —Kevern Verney, Edge Hill University
£16.96
MH - Indiana University Press Missouri Railroads
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£40.50
Penn State University A Tale of Two Surrogates A Graphic Narrative on
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£78.16
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Andean Ontologies New Archaeological
Book SynopsisOffers a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how ancient Andean people understood their world and the nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, space, and the human body, these essays highlight a range of beliefs across the region's different cultures, emphasizing the relational aspects of identity in Andean worldviews.
£77.35
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Beyond Black Hawk Down Intervention
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£41.36
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Subverting the Republic Donald J. Trump and the
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£55.10
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The President and American Capitalism since 1945
Book SynopsisTracing the development of the US presidency since Harry S. Truman took office in 1945, this volume describes the many ways the president's actions have affected the development of capitalism in the post-World War II era. Contributors show how the American ""Consumer-in-Chief"" has exerted a decisive hand as well as behind-the-scenes influence on the national economy and everyday American life.
£60.35
MN - University of British Columbia Press A Tight Grip
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£30.60
John Wiley & Sons Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Book SynopsisProvides an account of Wilfred Grenfell - his idiosyncracies, his attempts to meet the needs of the community, his rescue from a floating ice pan, his marriage - and brings to life the Newfoundlanders with whom the author worked.Trade Review"An important link that has been missing in the literature on Grenfell and the Grenfell Mission. Rompkey has admirably researched Miss Luther's background, giving key insights into her character. His scholarship is unfailing and extensive. A job well done!" Paula Laverty, Guest Curator for Matting Season: Hooked Mats of the Grenfell Mission, Museum for Textiles, Toronto "A significant, new primary source with substantioal contextual support. Rompkeys scholarship and methodology are sound, his research on Jessie Luther conprehensive. Her journal also stands as a vivid portrait of a woman's frontier experience very much rooted in its time and place." Ellen Easton McLeod, author of In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild
£52.70
John Wiley & Sons The Founding Moment Church Society and the
Book SynopsisIn The Founding Moment William Westfall details the founding of Trinity College, telling the story of an important group of Anglicans who tried to respond creatively to the powerful social forces reshaping English-speaking Canada in the middle of the nineteenth century.Trade Review"Trinity is but the laboratory where Westfall plies his imagination in recreating an intellectual and social world we have almost entirely lost and mostly forgotten ever existed. The quality and range of his scholarship is on full display - both his command of the Canadian and international literature, and his well-established ability to exploit sources." R.D. Gidney, emertius, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario "A vital and significant contribution to Canadian history." Elizabeth Smyth, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE, University of Toronto
£59.40
John Wiley & Sons In Defence of the Faith Joaquim Marques de
Book SynopsisRecounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.Trade Review"This is a wonderfully crafted and impeccably researched study of one individual's struggle in defence of the ancient regime in late colonial Brazil." Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
£58.90
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake
Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis that shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce composed this work to suggest why he wrote and arranged it as he did.
£70.12
John Wiley & Sons After Evangelicalism
Book SynopsisA fascinating account of how Canada's largest Protestant church reinvented itself during the tumultuous 1960s.Trade Review"Flatt demystifies the place of evangelicalism in a denomination replete with tensions on how to deal with the fundamentals of Christianity - it is fascinating to follow the different trajectories of the elite and apparently most of the laity. After Evangelicalism is essential reading for anyone serious about Canadian Protestant history and the polarization of those who championed ethical imperatives above all else and those who defended the core truth claims of Christianity." Eric Crouse, Department of History, Tyndale University College " Flatt' s book is readable, well organized, carefully argued, and grounded in meticulous archival research. Moreover, it is an important work. As this country' s largest Protestant denomination, the United Church of Canada played a prominent role in Canadian public life - and in the personal lives of many Canadian families - throughout the twentieth century. Given the denomination' s importance, it is surprising that few academics have produced books devoted exclusively to the history of the United Church. Thus, Flatt' s work is a welcome addition both to the field of Canadian religious history and to the social and cultural history of postwar Canada." Canadian Historical Review " After Evangelicalism is a study of an important part of Canadian Protestant history, throwing light on the dilemmas and implications of competing interpretations of the Holy Scriptures within a church as an institution/human organisation, and on the tension between the leadership at church headquarters and the laity in terms of religiosity and morality, which has consequences for its members." British Journal of Canadian Studies
£27.90
Harvard University Press The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants
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£45.01
University Press of Florida Todd Bolender Janet Reed and the Making of
Book SynopsisIllustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at centre stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed.
£36.71
Princeton University Press Following the Bend
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£22.50
University Press of Florida Panepiphanal World
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called ""epiphanies"". Composed between 1901 and 1904, at the beginning of Joyce's writing career, these texts are often dismissed as juvenilia. Sangam MacDuff instead argues that the epiphanies are an important point of origin for Joyce's entire body of work.
£27.81
John Wiley & Sons Inside Ethnic Families
Inside Ethnic Families is a rich and lively ethnography that describes the perceptions, illusions, and life experiences of three generations of Portuguese-Canadians. Edite Noivo provides an insider's perspective on a number of family-related issues, ranging from housework and ageing to gender relations and family violence.
£27.90
MY - University of Toronto Press Aggressive in Pursuit
Book SynopsisFew people have had a greater impact on the lives of Canadians than the late Supreme Court judge Justice Emmett Hall. At the forefront of several important judgements in the 1960s and 70s such as Truscott and Calder Hall is perhaps best known for his role in the adoption of universal health care at the federal level in 1968. Based on extensive interviews with Hall and people who knew him, Frederick Vaughan''s Aggressive in Pursuit tells Hall''s remarkable story.Born in Quebec in 1898 and raised in Saskatchewan, Hall had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer. In 1957, former law school classmate Prime Minister John Diefenbaker appointed Hall to the Saskatchewan Court of Queen''s Bench, and four years later to the office of Chief Justice of Saskatchewan. In 1963, Diefenbaker elevated Hall to the Supreme Court of Canada, where he took up the task of universal health care and showed himself to be an aggressive defender of native causes.Aggressive in Pursu
£47.70
University Press of Florida A Punkhouse in the Deep South The Oral History
Book SynopsisTold in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.Trade Review“This beautifully crafted page-turner presents the outsider history of a thriving southern punkhouse where military brats, rocker chefs, queerdoe artists, revivified veterans, a newborn, and a rotating pack of dogs lived nearly cash-free in a filthy and vibrant wonderland they made imperfectly together.”- Anna Joy Springer, author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love;“A Punkhouse in the Deep South is a ray of light from a completely unexpected direction: a lucid, humble, sweet-natured account of building a small DIY utopia that would continue to flourish for more than 25 years in ostensibly hostile terrain. Its success may not be replicable, but that it happened at all is cause for wonder.”- Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York;“The first punk oral history to illuminate a chronically undervalued context for southern misfit life: that it thrives because of its relationship to its community, not despite it.”- Nate Powell, artist of the March trilogy;“This book celebrates the punks who do the grunt work to build places where they can conspire to make a better way of life. It is an essential contribution to the history of music, counterculture, and cities.”- James Tracy, coauthor of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
£15.26
MY - University of Toronto Press Born at the Right Time
Book SynopsisFrom Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of the baby-boomers became predominant themes for all of society. The first Canadian history of a legendary generation.Trade Review'Owram shows in fascinating detail the massive impact this group had on everything from the baby food that was created to feed them, to the suburbs that were built to house them and the school system that sprung up to educate them.' The Toronto Star The Toronto Star '[Owram provides] some valuable insights into how this most privileged generation of the century got here and why we rebelled.' The Globe and Mail 'A thorough and absorbing work which demonstrates how the baby-boomers, that demographic watermelon passing through the post-war snake, defined our times.' The Vancouver Sun 'It is an extremely well-researched book, full of data tables and bar graphs. If you need to know how many copies of Elvis Presley's Hound Dog were sold in 1956, or the amount of sugar in Sugar Smacks, this is your book. Apart from his thoroughness, Owram possesses two indispensable qualities: a sense of proportion and a sense of humor.' -- Bruce Taylor The Montreal Gazette 'This first-rate scholarly product has the best elements of monograph, synthesis, and a good read. Historians of postwar North America should consider this book both for its innovative thesis linking the 1950s and the 1960s, and because it is a fine example of a well-constructed history.' -- J. Trent Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University Journal of Social History 'Doug Owram has done something amazing: he has written a book about the boomers entirely free of the cliches that ruin almost everything else written on the subject. ... Born at the Right Time is packed with ideas; every generalization is backed by evidence.' Saturday Night
£29.70
MH - Indiana University Press Caring Like a State
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£62.90
University Press of Florida Queering the Redneck Riviera Sexuality and the
Book SynopsisRecovers the forgotten and erased history of gay men and lesbians in North Florida, a region often overlooked in the story of the LGBTQ experience. Jerry Watkins reveals both the challenges these men and women faced in the years following World War II and the essential role they played in making the Emerald Coast a major tourist destination.Trade ReviewWatkins' book shares with us for the first time the many first hand accounts, in great detail, of gay men navigating a gay lifestyle in Florida's panhandle. . . . Many of the stories in the book are as entertaining as they are educational and informative."—South Florida Gay News
£20.96
University of California Press Black Artists in Their Own Words
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£27.00
MO - University of Illinois Press Against Labor
Book Synopsis Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in the context of neoliberalism. Timely and revealing, Against Labor deepens our understanding of management history and employer activism and their metamorphic effects on workplace and society. Contributors: Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Rosemary Feurer, Dolores E. Janiewski, Thomas A. Klug, Chad Pearson, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger, and Robert Woodrum.Trade Review"Boldly challenges the scholarship that considers employers as a malleable force that often compromises when social movements forge political environments that are inimical to their interests. Contributes enormously to our understanding of business tactics and strategy."--Immanuel Ness, author of Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism"At a time when public sector unions are under renewed attack and private-sector union membership hovers near levels not seen since the early twentieth century, Against Labor offers a potent, powerful reminder that, as Feurer and Pearson put it, 'People, not faceless markets, shaped this story.'" --The Journal of Southern History"An excellent volume. The standard of scholarship and writing is very high, and the editors have worked hard to produce a cohesive collection of essays that shed much light on a still-understudied phenomenon in US and labor history more broadly."--Australasian Journal of American Studies"These essays make one thing quite clear: the existential threat that US unions currently face has been building for decades"--Social History"Recommended."--Choice"The respective chapters make for interesting reading. They raise fundamental issues concerning the long arc of industrial relations or labour history in America; of the long, unrelenting class-based campaign of employers and the various strategies and methods they have used to keep unions at bay and counter their attempts to improve the wages and working conditions of American workers."--Labour History"The decline of organized labor in recent decades is often attributed to globalization, financialization, and right-wing politics. But the compelling essays in this important volume show that the limits to workers’ collective power stem more basically from the concerted anti-union efforts of their employers dating back to the nineteenth century. Chronicling how capitalists have effectively forged a class-conscious social movement 'against labor,' these critical case studies make a vital contribution to the history of capitalism while illuminating the challenges facing workers today."--Jeffrey Sklansky, author of The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920
£77.35
University Press of Florida Joyce Aristotle and Aquinas
Book SynopsisExamines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge.
£26.06
MH - Indiana University Press Deep Cosmopolitanism
£70.55
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Christian Internationalism and German Belonging The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism
£58.65
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Archaeology of the American Revolution
£66.30
MH - Indiana University Press The New Yugoslav Woman
£69.70
MH - Indiana University Press What a Building Does
£28.80
John Wiley & Sons Rada Photography
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£34.20
MH - Indiana University Press Greater Minnesota
£40.50
Penn State University Thrill Ride
£25.16
University Press of Florida Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley
Book SynopsisExamines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now.
£20.66
Penn State University Enlightenment Anthropology
£30.56
Penn State University Iridescence and the Image
£60.31
University Press of Florida Mickey and the Teamsters A Fight for Fair Unions
Book SynopsisBehind the costumes, life isn’t always magic and fairy dust for the people who play the iconic characters of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Cinderella at Walt Disney World. In a surprising tale of corruption alongside activism, this book reveals the little-known story of Teamsters Local 385, the union that represents these performers.Trade Review“This timely, well-researched, well-reported volume explores what happens when a union becomes undemocratic. . . . Will appeal to readers interested in union politics, Disney history, or nonfiction books that take a deep dive into their subjects.”—Library Journal
£20.66
Penn State University Facing Decay Beauty Aging and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe
£71.36
Harvard University Press The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
£26.96
University Press of Florida Sherds of History Domestic Life in Colonial
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£22.36
MY - University of Toronto Press Making Sense of Sentencing
Book SynopsisOn 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book that, in addition to providing an overview of the law, effectively presents a sociological analysis of the legal reforms and their ramifications in this controversial area.The commissioned essays in this collection cover such crucial issues as options and alternatives in sentencing, patterns revealed by recent statistics, sentencing of minority groups, Bill C-41 and its effects, conditional sentencing, and the structure and relationship between parole and sentencing are clearly presented. An introduction, editorial comments beginning each chapter, and a concluding chapter draw the essays together resulting in a timely, comprehensive and extremely readable work on this critical topic.Broad in scope and perspective, this major new socio-legal study of the law of sentencing will be illuminating to students, member
£30.60
MY - University of Toronto Press The Romance Epics of Boiardo Ariosto and Tasso
Book SynopsisIn The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period''s three major chivalric poets. Cavallo challenges previous critical assumptions about the trajectory of the romance genre, especially regarding questions of creative imitation, allegory, ideology, and political engagement.In tracing the development of the romance epic against the historical context of the Ferrarese court and the Italian peninsula, Cavallo moves from a politically engaged Boiardo, whose poem promotes the tenets of humanism, to an individualistic Tasso, who opposed the repressive aspects of the counter-reformation culture he is often thought to represent. Ariosto is read from the vantage of his predecessor Boiardo, and Cavallo describes his cynicism and later mellowing attitude toward the real-world relevance of his and Boiardo''s fiction. The Romance Epics of BoiardTrade Review"'In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo demonstrates an impressive mastery of the texts of three massively complex poets, a keen understanding of the social and intellectual constructs with which they worked, and an easy familiarity with the extensive critical literature about them. She uses these formidable assets to advance a compelling and original theory about their relationship to each other. That has been a vexing and controversial problem, and Cavallo illuminates it with freshness, modesty, and great clarity of focus.' Werner Gundersheimer, Director Emeritus, Folger Shakespeare Library"
£61.20
University Press of Florida An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders
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£22.36
Penn State University Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
£26.96
