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Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology
Over the last twenty years the Journal of HistoricalSociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. Theseessays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists,anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of theJHS. Volume 1 focuses on the British state, Volume 2 on thejournal’s wider interdisciplinary challenges. The second in a two-volume anthology representing the bestarticles published in The Journal of Historical Sociologyover the last twenty years. Includes essays, debates and responses written byinternationally distinguished historians, sociologists,anthropologists and geographers as well as by pioneering newerscholars have been influential in challenging and redefining thefield of historical sociology. Spans a range of issues and topics that combine rich empiricalscholarship with sophisticated theoretical engagement, bringingtogether the very best of the JHS. Challenges the nature of undertaking interdisciplinary workwithin history and the social sciences. A wide exploration of the historiographical, taking us beyondEurope and often highlighting unconventional approaches to thedisciplines.
Bad Blood
Marnie Bruce has hyperthymesia; she can remember everything she has ever seen. Everything except from one fateful night when she was eleven; she woke up in an isolated cottage with a head injury and her mother gone. Twenty years later Marnie heads back to Scotland seeking answers to what happened, but in the small town of Galloway, her mother's disappearance still burns in the air and Marnie's return looks set to tear open old wounds for many of the locals.
Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond
From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and unsayable foundations of human perception and expression, prior to objective points of view and scientific notions. It is this aspect of modernism that this book brings to the fore. The essays presented here bring into focus the contemporary face of ongoing debates about phenomenology and modernism. The contributors forcefully underline the intertwining of modernism and phenomenology and the extent to which the latter offers a clue to the former. The book presents the viewpoints of a range of int...
Material Cultures in Canada
Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a different object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body. The book’s three sections focus, in turn, on objects that are persistently material, on things whose materiality blends into the immaterial, and on the materials of spaces. Contributors highlight some of the most exciting new developments in the field, such as the emergence of “new materialism,” affect ...
Vancouver, Art and Artists, 1931-1983
Alexander, Paul ; Amess, Fred ; Anderson, John ; André, Françoise ; Arden, Roy ; Aspell, Peter ; Banana, Anna ; Bates, Maxwell ; Baxter, Iain ; Bell, Alistair ; Bentley, Percy ; Binning, Bertram C. ; Black, Byron ; Bluesinger, Taki ; Bobak, Bruno ; Bradley, Randy ; Braidwood, Tom ; etc.
Canadian Almanac & Directory
The Canadian Almanac & Directory contains sixteen directories in one giving you all the facts and figures you will ever need about Canada. No other single source provides users with the quality and depth of up-to-date information.
