The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spe
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Author:Trentmann, Frank
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Author:Toews, Owen
Summary:Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West ove
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Author:Summary:The work of Bryan D.
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Author:Byron, Robert
Summary:Robert Byron (1905-1941) was a famous British travel writer. Byron died at the young age of 35 when the ship he was travelling on was torpedoed by a German U-Boat.
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Author:Ovenden, Richard
Summary:In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablet
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Author:Thompson, Reginald 'Dutch'
Summary:Reginald-better known as 'Dutch'-Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices-those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless ot
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Author:Massoutre, Guylaine
Summary:Il y a d'abord une violence aveugle et indicible. Les disparus, les torturés, les fusillés, les exilés, les prisonniers politiques de la dictature militaire en Argentine, entre 1976 et 1983.
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Author:Bouchard, Serge
Summary:De novembre 1975 à octobre 1976, Serge Bouchard a voyagé avec des camionneurs dans le Nord-Ouest québécois.
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Author:Villoro, Juan
Summary:At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest
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Author:White, Jerry
Summary:Jerry White's London in the Eighteenth Century is an unrivalled, panoramic account of the city's dramatic century of rebirth by its leading expert.
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Author:Zeitz, Joshua
Summary:Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.
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Author:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Summary:"It can start with a knock on the door one morning.
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Author:Al-Barbari, Sahbaa
Summary:Sahbaa Al-Barbari's story provides a unique perspective on Palestinian experience before and after the 1948 Nakba.
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Author:Yurk, Jon
Summary:A provocative look at the vital connection between human beings, the natural world and meaningful knowledge.
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Author:Gehl, Lynn
Summary:A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl's lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state's constant genocidal assault against her existence.
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