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  • For God or Empire

    Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World

    by Wilson Chacko Jacob ...
    Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. For God or Empire tells his story, part biography and part global history, as his life and legacy afford a singular view on historical shifts of power and sovereignty, religion and politics.Wilson Chacko Jacob recasts the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Working Out Egypt

    Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940

    by Wilson Chacko Jacob ...
    Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle Eastern historiography. Wilson Chacko Jacob describes how Egyptian men of a class akin to the cultural bourgeoisie (the effendiyya) struggled to escape from the long shadow cast by colonial depictions of the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Offshore Pipelines

    by Jacob Chacko, Boyun Guo, Ali Ghalambor, Shanhong Song Ph.D., Tian Ran Lin PhD ...
    Offshore Pipelines covers the full scope of pipeline development from pipeline designing, installing, and testing to operating. It gathers the authors' experiences gained through years of designing, installing, testing, and operating submarine pipelines. The aim is to provide engineers and management personnel a guideline to achieve cost-effective management in their offshore and deepwater ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 32 No. 1, 2022

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, P. E. Bryden, Sydney Harker, Frederick Glover, Jeffrey L. McNairn, E. A. Heaman, James Muir, Eric H. Reiter, John M. Willis, Ali Altaf Mian0, Sebastian R. Prange1, Wilson Chacko Jacob2 ...
    Series Book 32 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    This past year has been a long one. While my corporal presence has remained, as an uninvited interloper, on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ, Esquimalt, and Lkwungen peoples, my intellectual wanderings feel much less grounded even if they are equally trespasses. We have spent too long in the same places. We have spent too long living with grief and anxiety and uncertainty. We have spent ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

    Edited by Irvin Studin ...
    Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Read more

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  • AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets

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    by A. Gregory Frankson ...
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    Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada''s most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as ... Read more

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    The French Dimension

    by Margaret A. Majumdar ...
    “Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author ... Read more

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  • Édouard Glissant

    A Poetics of Resistance

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  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

    by F. Elizabeth Dahab ...
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  • Les Belles Étrangères

    Canadians in Paris

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