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  • Looking Everywhere But Right Here

    by Lester Alan Kalish ...
    There was no place like Brooklyn in the 1950s or a better view than the one from the roof of author Lester Alan Kalish's 5-story apartment building. The streets were playgrounds. Only a parent's call for dinner could interrupt the joys of childhood. But, as in all stories, life cannot always be this idyllic.Years later a mother's premonition and a father's cancer diagnosis would create a fear of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ruling the World

    Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    by Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell ...
    Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Truth About Empire

    Real Stories of British Colonialism

    Edited by Alan Lester ...
    The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in today's polarised debates over Britain's imperial past. Colonial history is now a battlefield in the culture war. The public's ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • From Colonization to Democracy

    A New Historical Geography of South Africa

    by Alan Lester ...
    This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society, including social groupings and their stratification, policital institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

    Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    by Alan Lester, Fae Dussart ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Imperial Networks

    Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain

    by Alan Lester ...
    Imperial Networks investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism. It reveals how British colonialism in the Eastern Cape region was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities elsewhere, both in Britain and in other colonies.It examines:* the origins and development of the three interacting discourses of colonialism - official, humanitarian and settler* the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995

    Selective humanity in the Anglophone world

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Trevor Burnard, Alan Lester ...
    Series Book 198 - Studies in Imperialism
    This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth century to the role of NGOs balancing humanitarianism and human rights in the late twentieth century. Contributors explore the trade-offs between ... Read more

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  • Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

    Remedying the 'Past'?

    Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer ...
    Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing that the impact of the slave trade is continuing and therefore contemporary, it maintains that this ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Colonialism

    A Moral Reckoning

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West’s colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled

    by Mark Milke ...
    From assaults on historical figures such as John A. Macdonald to cancel culture and charges that Canada is a genocidal nation-state, the country that every generation and every immigrant built is now facing routine and corrosive attacks.How did this happen?In this new book, twenty critical thinkers provide answers: we are awash in relentless grievance narratives and utopians who expect Canada’s ... Read more

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  • 1867

    How the Fathers Made a Deal

    by Christopher Moore ...
    “In the 1860s, western alienation began at Yonge Street, and George Brown was the Preston Manning of the day.” So begins Christopher Moore’s fascinating 1990s look at the messy, dramatic, crisis-ridden process that brought Canada into being – and at the politicians, no more lovable or united than our own, who, against all odds, managed to forge a deal that worked.From the first chapter, he turns a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sense and Nonsense in Australian History

    by John Hirst ...
    Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and nationalistic history, as well as a substantial essay on Aboriginal ... Read more

    $7.99 USD