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  • Empires of Violence

    Massacre in a Revolutionary Age

    by Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan ...
    Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence perpetrated in these four corners of the world compare? Did the oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples constitute a new form of violence? ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 4, 1800 to the Present

    Edited by Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Violence
    This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. It also examines the changing representations of violence in diverse media and the cultural significance of its commemoration. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Science, Africa and Europe

    Processing Information and Creating Knowledge

    Edited by Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn, Patrick Harries ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    by Jack Lynch, Howard Weinbrot, Molly Marotta, Yu Liu, Claude Willan, Daniel Gustafson, James Horowitz, Philip S. Palmer, Pat Rogers, Sarah Stein, Samara Anne Cahill, Suzanne L. Barnett, R.J.W. Mills, Nigel Penn, Christopher Trigg, Mark G. Spencer, Roy Bogas, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Isabel Rivers, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Malcolm Jack, Kate Brown, Jane R. Stevens, Robin Runia, Paula Pinto, Tamara Wagner, Anthony W. Lee ...
    Series Book 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

    by Conrad Black ...
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  • Limits to Medicine

    Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the ... Read more

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  • Canadian History For Dummies

    by Will Ferguson ...
    A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated!This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical and archeological ... Read more

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  • The Long Shadow of German Colonialism

    Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

    by Henning Melber ...
    From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks. While debates are now common in France and Britain over the impact of empire on former colonies and colonizing societies, German imperialism has only more recently become a topic of ... Read more

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  • The Making of Canada

    An Epic History in Twenty Extraordinary Lives

    by Greg Koabel ...
    The Making of Canada is a bold reimagining of Canada's past, presenting the nation's evolution through the stories of twenty diverse and fascinating individuals who at critical moments in time shaped its identity.Moving beyond the familiar names of Champlain and Macdonald, historian Greg Koabel, creator of the popular Nations of Canada podcast, shines a spotlight on lesser-known figures such as ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe

    Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960

    by Miel Groten ...
    Series series Landscape and Heritage Studies
    Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial networks between metropole and colonies, in cities as diverse as Glasgow, Hamburg, or Paris, numerous ... Read more

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  • Crucible of War

    The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

    by Fred Anderson ...
    In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — ... Read more

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