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  • Mafia

    A Global History

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes readers on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of organized crime and its far-reaching impact on contemporary society. From backroom deals to global power plays, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    **'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman**The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Sorrowful Shores

    Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence. Sorrowful Shores presents a unique, on-the-ground history of these bloody years of social and political transformation. Challenging ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Fall of the Sultanate

    The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Series series The Greater War
    The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century. This volume encompasses a full accounting of the political, economic, social, and international forces ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Eternal Dawn

    Turkey in the Age of Atatürk

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Amid the tensions and uncertainties that plagued the globe before the Second World War, the Republic of Turkey appeared to many as a unique and constructive model for how a state was to be reformed and governed in the modern era. For many interwar observers, Turkey was a country that seemed to have radically transformed itself into a nation that was united, strong, and progressive, one that was ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Mafia

    A Global History

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Narrated by Nathan Osgood ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 35 min

    A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes readers on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of organized crime and its far-reaching impact on contemporary society. From backroom deals to global power plays, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific

    Strategy, Order, and Regional Security

    by Catherine L. Grant, Alessio Patalano, James A. Russell, Christopher P. Twomey, Peter Dutton, Clive Schofield, Nicola Leveringhaus0, Ryan Gingeras1, Richard Dunley2, Daniel Moran3, Kevin Rowlands4, Ian Bowers5, Julie Marionneau6, Sheryn Lee7, James Goldrick8, James Wirtz9, Abhijit Singh0 ...
    A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-PacificCompetition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly felt than in the Indo-Pacific region, where freedom of navigation is challenged by regional states’ continuous investments in naval power, and the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

    A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

    by Misha Glenny ...
    Drugs, weapons, migrant labour, women - these are just a few of the many goods that effortlessly cross national borders in this globalized age, often without the knowledge or permission of the nations concerned. How is this remarkable criminal feat managed? From gun runners in the Ukraine, to money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan, and the booming marijuana ... Read more

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  • Ataturk

    by Andrew Mango ...
    This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire.He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the ... Read more

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  • The Shah

    by Abbas Milani ...
    The definitive, "splendidly detailed" biography of the last Shah of Iran, tracing his dramatic rise, dictatorial rule, and fall from power in 1979 ( Chicago Tribune).Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, the life of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, continues to resonate today. Here, internationally respected author Abbas Milani gives us the definitive ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Echidna Strategy

    Australia's Search for Power and Peace

    by Sam Roggeveen ...
    In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more.The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD