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  • League of Nations

    Histories, legacies and impact

    League of Nations offers new perspectives on the history, legacies and impact of the League of Nations. The essays in this collection demonstrate how vastly diverse topics from film, education, Christian youth movements, colonial rule in the Pacific islands, national economic analyses, disarmament, humanitarianism and refugees as well as international relations, national sovereignty and domestic ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • When Migrants Fail to Stay

    New Histories on Departures and Migration

    Series series New Directions in Social and Cultural History
    The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refugees stranded in Europe, China and Africa, it offered the possibility of mobility to the 'new world' of the West; for countries like Australia that accepted them, it marked the beginning of a radical reimagining of its identity as an immigrant nation. For the next few decades, ... Read more

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    Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire

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    Series Book 19 - Berkeley Series in British Studies
    Saving the Children analyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save the Children, from its formation during the First World War through the era of decolonization. Whereas Save the Children claimed that it was "saving children to save the world," the vision of the world it sought to save was strictly delimited, ... Read more

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  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2015

    In this new and revised edition, Knowles explores new materials relating to multiculturalism and immigration.Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped ... Read more

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  • Kicking Away the Ladder

    Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically ... Read more

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  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006 Revised Edition

    Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians' perception of themselves as a country and as a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped to define the character of Canadian immigrants over the centuries. Key policymakers and moulders of public ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Strong Leader

    Political Leadership in the Modern Age

    by Archie Brown ...
    From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our ... Read more

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  • This Sovereign Isle

    Britain In and Out of Europe

    by Robert Tombs ...
    THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGeography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has been inhabited it has been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe.In this succinct ... Read more

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  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

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  • The Making of the Mosaic

    A History of Canadian Immigration Policy

    Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have shaped Canada's immigration history.Beginning their study in the pre ... Read more

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  • The Fear and the Freedom

    How the Second World War Changed Us

    by Keith Lowe ...
    The international bestselling author of Savage Continent examines how the world has been transformed by World War II.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of WWII ... Read more

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  • Rogue Tory

    The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker

    by Denis Smith ...
    Winner of the Dafoe Book PrizeWinner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most charismatic and enigmatic public figure, the thirteenth prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker. Beloved and reviled with equal passion, he was a politician possessed of a flamboyant, self-fabulizing nature that is the essential ingredient ... Read more

    $11.99 USD