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  • At the Emperor's Pleasure

    Surviving Wartime Captivity in the Far East

    by Richard Graham ...
    At the Emperors Pleasure follows the young couple Christopher and Topsy Man through the savage battle for Hong Kong and the years of enforced separation, she interned in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, he as a prisoner of war and forced labourer in Kobe, Japan. The book is not about Christopher and Topsy Man alone but also of friends and colleagues close to them forced to endure the cruel torture and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Slum

    by Aluísio Azevedo ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North American equivalent. Yet Azevedo also exhibits the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • New Approaches to Latin American History

    Edited by Richard Graham, Peter H. Smith ...
    New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history.Using as examples such subjects as salvery, dictatorship, immigration, and the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Brazil and the World System

    Edited by Richard Graham ...
    Has the world economy shaped and defined Brazil’s economic and political history and, if so, to what extent? Is Brazil’s past to be explained principally by its insertion in a single world capitalist system? The authors of the three essays in this volume reflect critically on these questions along with the following: Should the determining factors be understood as sociological-cultural (as in a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930

    by E. Bradford Burns, Thomas E. Skidmore ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditional of Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.E. Bradford Burns ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Machado de Assis

    Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer

    Edited by Richard Graham ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) never left Brazil and rarely traveled outside his native city of Rio de Janeiro, yet he is widely acknowledged by those who have read him as one of the major authors of the nineteenth century. His works are full of subtle irony, relentless psychological insights, and brilliant literary innovations. Yet, because he wrote in Portuguese, a language outside ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    Edited by Richard Graham ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On the one hand, they aspired to an ever-closer connection to Europe and North America, where, during much of this period, "scientific" thought condemned nonwhite races to an inferior category. Yet, with the heterogeneous racial makeup of their societies clearly before ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of Comic Book Movies

    by Richard Graham, Wheeler Winston Dixon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television shows in the 1950s and 60s, were for the most part designed for children. But today, with the continuing rise of Comic-Con, they seem to be more a ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Knight for a Day

    A journey back in time to Camelot

    by Richard Graham ...
    Henry accepts Merlin's mysterious challenge on his eleventh birthday, and it leads him and his dog to a magical adventure in the colourful but menacing world of the Knights of the Round Table. The dangers of life in the Dark Ages are the least of Henry's problems as he is faced with the strange beliefs, diet, table manners, fashion, humour and stinking bathroom facilities at King Arthur's court. ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Feeding the City

    From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860

    by Richard Graham ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Independence in Latin America

    Contrasts and Comparisons

    by Richard Graham ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent. What social and economic groups lined up on one side or the other? Were there variations ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Effective Child Abuse Investigation for the Multi-Disciplinary Team

    by Bradley Richard Graham ...
    Child abuse cases are unique in that they involve seldomly witnessed acts. A nonverbal victim and a silent perpetrator will often lead to a stalling of the investigation and the judicial process. Effective Child Abuse Investigation for the Multi-Disciplinary Team is a practical guide for law enforcement officers and child protection workers in abus ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD