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  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn Young ...
    The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn B. Young ...
    "This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement--meticulously documented, excitingly narrated, written with grace, wit, and passion."– Howard Zinn"This terrible history is told with such clarity and passion, detail, intelligence it's hard to stop reading. The tension in the writing keeps your sadness in some kind of check as you read about ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

    Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

    by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Alex Danchev, David Elliott, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Gabriel Kolko, Walter LaFeber, Wilfried Mausbach, Alfred W. McCoy, Gareth Porter, John Prados ...
    Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer "history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." —Howard ZinnFrom the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties

    Between Protest and Nation-Building

    Edited by Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen ...
    ‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic "1968," Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Bombing Civilians

    A Twentieth-Century History

    Edited by Yuki Tanaka, Marilyn B. Young ...
    "The powerful moral criticisms raised by these searching essays extend from the bombing of civilians to war itself." —Robert Jay Lifton, National Book Award–winning authorBombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights and Revolutions

    Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Greg Grandin, Lynn Hunt, Marilyn B. Young ...
    Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

    Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Bombing Civilians

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Yuki Tanaka, Marilyn B. Young ...
    Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Howard Zinn on War

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely reversing his ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse Volume Four

    The Demise of “Democracy” after Putin’s Return to Power

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    In this volume we focus on the years following Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. This has been a more active period than his first two terms, including the annexation of Crimea and, ultimately, the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, this period may be characterized as the run-up to that war. The core issue discussed in this volume is Putin’s redefinition of “democracy” as the foundation of society ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Happy Hunters

    The Miraculous Life and Healing Ministry of Charles and Frances Hunter

    by Richard Young, Brenda Young ...
    Known as the “Happy Hunters,” Charles and Frances Hunter were nationally recognized both for their powerful healing ministry and for their unbridled, contagious joy. What few people know, however, is that Frances spent years as a “wild sinner,” and Charles was a “dried-up spiritual prune” for most of his early life.God miraculously used these two unlikely candidates to birth one of the most ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 3

    Vladimir Putin and the Redefinition of “Democracy” – 2000-2008

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    In Volume Three of this four-volume series, we examine the rhetorical development that occurred during the first two terms of Vladimir Putin’s tenure as president of the Russian Federation. Initially, Putin appeared to follow in the path set by his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, vowing that Russia was, at heart, a European nation and would be a westward facing democracy going forward. He even ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD