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  • The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 2, The Pacific Ocean since 1800

    Edited by Anne Perez Hattori, Jane Samson ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
    Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean focuses on the latest era of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. This volume discusses advances and emerging trends in the historiography of the colonial era, before outlining the main themes of the twentieth century when the idea of a Pacific-centred century emerged. It concludes by exploring how history and ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • At the Periphery of a World War?

    Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe

    by Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt, Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana, Agustín Desiderato, Carolina García Sanz, Karen Horn, Ma Jun, Karina Kriegesmann0, Stefan Manz1, Miguel Martorell Linares2, Sérgio Rezendes3, Anne Samson4, María Inés Tato5 ...
    Series Book 43 - Eigene und Fremde Welten
    The First World War and its aftermath were significant events with widespread consequences that impacted everyday people. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which the Great War affected urban life, extending beyond the typically recognized regions such as the European Great powers, the USA, and its colonies and spheres of influence. It explores the impacts on ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental space not claimed by any nation-state. Scientifically, the continental ice sheet has provided us with vital evidence about the Earth ... Read more

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  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Portugal

    The Impossible Revolution?

    by Phil Mailer, Maurice Brinton ...
    After the military coup in Portugal on April 25th, 1974, the overthrow of almost fifty years of Fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed eighteen months of intense, democratic social transformation which challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a military coup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a ... Read more

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  • Questioning Collapse

    Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

    Edited by Patricia A. McAnany, Norman Yoffee ...
    Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Salazar

    The Dictator Who Refused to Die

    by Tom Gallagher ...
    Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others praise his honesty, patriotism and dedication to duty. Contemporary radicals are wary of his unabashed elitism and skepticism about social ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Morning Star Rising

    The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

    by Camellia Webb-Gannon, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, April K. Henderson ...
    Series series Indigenous Pacifics
    That Indonesia’s ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Spain

    The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

    by Michael Reid Y ...
    An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond“Comprehensive and engaging.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial TimesSpain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe ... Read more

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  • Oceanic Histories

    Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Series series Cambridge Oceanic Histories
    Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Foreign Relations 1939-1950

    by Gerson Moura ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    At the recollections of Gerson Moura’s 20th decease year, the Brazilian society welcomes the results of his brilliant doctoral thesis in an important moment of challenges derived from globalization. It is an essential text in the comprehension of the Brazilianhistory, during the tough years of World War II and its aftermath; thus, the work enables readers to understand that the decisions of ... Read more

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  • Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Law

    by Sarah Dromgoole ...
    Series Book 101 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001, which entered into force internationally in 2009, is designed to deal with threats to underwater cultural heritage arising as a result of advances in deep-water technology. However, the relationship between this new treaty and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is deeply controversial. This study of the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD