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  • In His Shelter: A Christian in the British Army

    by Brendan Smith ...
    Smith's gripping and humorous memoir details his time in the British Army as a Humanitarian Aid Officer. The story follows Smith from day one of Basic Training to his last day in Afghanistan, a decade later. Thrilling accounts of surviving ambushes, riots and suicide bombs make In His Shelter an entertaining and inspiring tale of faith, adventure and friendship. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 1, 600–1550

    by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • In the Name of Democracy

    American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond

    by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, Brendan Smith ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information has started to emerge—photographs from Abu Ghraib; accounts of U.S. attacks on Iraqi hospitals, mosques, and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Migration

    Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race

    by Angelo Martins Junior, Brendan Smith, Florian Scheding, Holly Rooke, Juan Zhang, Laurence Publicover, Lucy Donkin, Manoj Dias-Abey, María Paula Escobar Tello, Nariman Massoumi, Natasha Carver, Brid Brennan ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Humans have always moved, but across the world ‘migration’ has become a major policy, political and media concern. How can we understand human movement without positioning ‘the migrant’ as a problem?This interdisciplinary collection rethinks migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of ... Read more

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  • Empire:A Very Short Introduction

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    A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems, the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires of western European powers, have collapsed during the past half century, their legacies shape almost ... Read more

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  • Runaway World

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  • Sniper in Helmand

    Six Months on the Frontline

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    A Global History

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  • Eurowhiteness

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  • Globalisation In World History

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