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  • Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts

    Edited by Audra Diptee, David Trotman ...
    Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores childhood and youth in the Global South. The term childhood often conjures images of innocence, vulnerability and the need for protection, but this book suggests that, in colonial contexts, these images need to be re-examined. In fact, as the articles in this collection demonstrate, deviance, culpability, and a presumed autonomy were the more popular ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    How the Fathers Made a Deal

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    “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

  • Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living free ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 12 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

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  • Replenishing the Earth:The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

    The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

    by James Belich ...
    Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.Between 1780 and 1930 the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    by Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan ...
    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    by Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

    by Martin A. Klein, Jan Hogendorn ...
    Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.Among the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Governor General and the Prime Ministers, The

    The Making and Unmaking of Governments

    by Edward McWhinney ...
    Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State, the Governor General, in facing the challenge of dysfunctionality. Edward McWhinney clearly lays out the present powers and responsibilities of the office, advising the country on what to expect from the Governor General and Prime Ministers. He does so ... Read more

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  • Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

    by James Vernon ...
    Series Book 4 - Cambridge History of Britain
    This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers ... Read more

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  • The People's House of Commons

    Theories of Democracy in Contention

    by David E. Smith ...
    Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges by the courts since the introduction of the Charter, a powerful bureaucracy equipped with ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, Tracey Lindberg ...
    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD