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  • Iberian Crossroads

    A Global History of Modern Spain

    by Pol Dalmau, Jorge Luengo ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence This book invites readers to rediscover Spain in the modern era-not as a fading empire relegated to Europe's margins, but as an active and often surprising participant in global transformations. Far from confined to the Iberian Peninsula, Spain was embedded in dense transnational networks that spanned the ... Read more

    $148.49 CAD

  • Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Ronald Kroeze, Pol Dalmau, Frédéric Monier ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered nature of corruption in four different empires (Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and France) and their possessions in Asia, the Caribbean, Latin ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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    Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry

    by Laura María Agustin ...
    This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Feeding the People

    The Politics of the Potato

    by Rebecca Earle ...
    Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and its celebration of the free market. It also reminds us ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Shortest History of Democracy

    by John Keane ...
    'DEMOCRACY HAS A LONG, EVENTFUL PAST. DOES IT HAVE A FUTURE?The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria- Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, where citizens' assemblies held privilege and power to account over 3,000 years before the French Revolution. In this timely and illuminating new global history, John Keane ('one of the world's leading political thinkers' ,The Times) gets ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

    The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850

    by Gabriel Paquette ...
    As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice

    All Power to the People

    by Paul Lucardie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Catalan Nationalism

    Francoism, Transition and Democracy

    by Montserrat Guibernau ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
    Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? These are some of the key ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Paradiplomacy in Action

    The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments

    Edited by Francisco Aldecoa, Dr Michael Keating ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
    Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC. ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Between Sex and Power

    Family in the World 1900-2000

    by Göran Therborn ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

    by Daniel Högger ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD