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  • Bargaining with the State from Afar

    American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942

    by Eileen Scully ...
    In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury abroad is usually a harsher reality complicated by income taxes, military duty, and legal jurisdiction. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution

    Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic

    by Ganesh Sitaraman ...
    **In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017**For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable—and they designed governments ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

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  • 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask

    by Thomas E. Woods Jr. ...
    Guess what? The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states’ rights—an idea reviled today—were even more important than the Constitution’s checks and balances. The “Wild” West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn’t involve an intern in a blue dress.Surprised? ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen : his life and achievements

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make China a modern country. ... Read more

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  • The Three Principles of the People

    San Min Chi I

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    The Three Principles of the People is a timely work that is still relevant in today's economic times.  In this book Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outlines his beliefs and principles for the people. In view of the prominent and influential position which The Three Principles of the People holds in the Chinese Nationalist movement and because of the difficulty involved in making passages for an abridged edition ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Special Providence

    American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

    by Walter Russell Mead ...
    From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America’s dealings—from its earliest days—with the rest of the world.It is Walter Russell Mead’s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced—and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge ... Read more

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  • The Color of Success

    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    by Ellen D. Wu ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • American Character

    A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

    by Colin Woodard ...
    The bestselling author of American Nations and Nations Apart examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free societyThe struggle between individual rights and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Impossible Subjects

    Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics

    by Mae Ngai ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Bancroft PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History PrizeFinalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book PrizeHow Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.**In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • At America's Gates

    Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

    by Erika Lee ...
    With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.At America’s Gates is the first book ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

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  • The Chinese Must Go

    Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

    by Beth Lew-Williams ...
    Winner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize“A powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.”—Richard White“A riveting, beautifully written account…that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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