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  • A Pacific Power

    Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa

    by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany, and the United States. A Pacific Power brings to light an often-overlooked history of German imperialism in the Pacific. Focusing on Samoa, it shows ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Kaiser and the Colonies

    Monarchy in the Age of Empire

    by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick ...
    Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other crowned heads of Europe. Rather than an expression of Wilhelm II's personal rule, Germany's global empire and its ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Colonialism, China and the Chinese

    Amidst Empires

    Edited by Peter Monteath, Matthew Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Empires in Perspective
    This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial expansion while remaining a major political, cultural and demographic force in its own right. Where ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Savage worlds

    German encounters abroad, 1798–1914

    Edited by Matthew Fitzpatrick, Peter Monteath ...
    Series Book 159 - Studies in Imperialism
    With an eye to recovering the experiences of those in frontier zones of contact*, Savage Worlds* maps a wide range of different encounters between Germans and non-European indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. Examining outbreaks of radical violence as well as instances of mutual co-operation, it examines the differing goals and experiences of German explorers, settlers, travellers, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Bad Luck Chuck

    by Lela Gwenn ...
    Cursed at birth with extraordinary bad luck, Charlene "Chuck" Manchester provides disaster where someone else can profit.Got a failing business? For a price Chuck will make sure you collect on that insurance policy, without ever getting your own hands dirty. But when a crime boss hires her to take out an evangelical cult, things don't go as planned. Now the mob boss, the cult leader, and a dogged ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    A Pedagogy for Liberation

    Dialogues on Transforming Education

    by Paulo Freire, Ira Shor ...
    Narrated by Matthew Hendrickson, Mike Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Bloomsbury presents A Pedagogy for Liberation by Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, read by Matthew Hendrickson and Mike FitzpatrickFirst published in 1987, this book brings together two renowned educators, Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, who describe their own experiences in liberating the classroom from its traditional constraints, including discussion of Freire's work in Guinea-Bissau and Shor's work in the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Hurricane Harvey's Aftermath

    Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery

    by Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Matthew L. Spialek ...
    Heartbreaking stories from survivors along the Texas Gulf CoastHurricane Harvey was one of the worst American natural disasters in recorded history. It ravaged the Texas Gulf Coast, and left thousands of people homeless in its wake. In Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Matthew L. Spialek offer first-hand accounts from survivors themselves, providing a rare, on-the-ground ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Worthy

    Celebrating the Value of Women

    by Elyse Fitzpatrick, Eric Schumacher ...
    Narrated by Matthew McAuliffe, Kate Mulligan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    What does the Bible say about the value of women? Does the Bible teach that women are as valuable as men, or does it portray them as somehow more flawed, more suspect, or weak and easily deceived?Beginning from Genesis and working all the way through the story line of the Bible, Worthy demonstrates the significant and yes, even surprising, ways that God has used women to accomplish His kingdom ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Germany in the World

    A Global History, 1500-2000

    by David Blackbourn ...
    Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany.With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • German Colonialism

    A Short History

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    Translated by Sorcha O'Hagan ...
    Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Conquest Of Nature

    Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

    by David Blackbourn ...
    The modern idea of 'mastery' over nature always had its critics, whether their motives were aesthetic, religious or environmentalist. By investigating how the most fundamental element - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straightening the courses of rivers, building high dams and exploiting hydro-electric power, The Conquest of Nature explores how over the last 250 years, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • German Women for Empire, 1884-1945

    by Lora Wildenthal, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the varied strands of racism, feminism, and nationalism that thread through German women’s efforts to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD