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  • Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

    War and Survival in South Sudan

    par Nick Turse ...
    Collections series Dispatch Books
    "[A] vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty, laced with rays of hope and courage and dignity amidst the horrors" (Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects).A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best.For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Tomorrow's Battlefield

    U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

    par Nick Turse ...
    Collections series Dispatch Books
    You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today." In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Changing Face of Empire

    Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

    par Nick Turse ...
    Collections series Dispatch Books
    Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Empire

    The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    par Niall Ferguson ...
    A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world.**“Scrupulous scholarship and a rattling good tale.” —**Wall Street JournalThe British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

  • The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

    The Demise of a Superpower, 1944-47

    par Peter Clarke ...
    'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.'Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously proclaimed his loyalty to the world-wide institution which he had served devotedly for most of his life. The majority of the British people, who believed they ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • US Foreign Policy in The Horn of Africa

    From Colonialism to Terrorism

    par Donna Jackson ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
    Examining American foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa between 1945 and 1991, this book uses Ethiopia and Somalia as case studies to offer an evaluation of the decision-making process during the Cold War, and consider the impact that these decisions had upon subsequent developments both within the Horn of Africa and in the wider international context.The decision-making process is studied, ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    par Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

    A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

    Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • Imperialism, Power, and Identity

    Experiencing the Roman Empire

    Collections series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    "An ambitious attempt to map the transformation of lifestyles and experience among Rome's provincial subjects in the first three centuries AD. . . . "History from below" at its best" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Extracting Profit

    Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa

    par Lee Wengraf ...
    Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    par Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD