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  • Ruling the World

    Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    by Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell ...
    Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

    Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    by Alan Lester, Fae Dussart ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995

    Selective humanity in the Anglophone world

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Trevor Burnard, Alan Lester ...
    Series Book 198 - Studies in Imperialism
    This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth century to the role of NGOs balancing humanitarianism and human rights in the late twentieth century. Contributors explore the trade-offs between ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Truth About Empire

    Real Stories of British Colonialism

    Edited by Alan Lester ...
    The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in today's polarised debates over Britain's imperial past. Colonial history is now a battlefield in the culture war. The public's ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

  • Imperial Networks

    Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain

    by Alan Lester ...
    Imperial Networks investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism. It reveals how British colonialism in the Eastern Cape region was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities elsewhere, both in Britain and in other colonies.It examines:* the origins and development of the three interacting discourses of colonialism - official, humanitarian and settler* the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Looking Everywhere But Right Here

    by Lester Alan Kalish ...
    There was no place like Brooklyn in the 1950s or a better view than the one from the roof of author Lester Alan Kalish's 5-story apartment building. The streets were playgrounds. Only a parent's call for dinner could interrupt the joys of childhood. But, as in all stories, life cannot always be this idyllic.Years later a mother's premonition and a father's cancer diagnosis would create a fear of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South Africa, Past, Present and Future

    Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

    by Tony Binns, Alan Lester, Etienne Nel ...
    This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers, the book enables us to locate the post-apartheid transition in a broad historical and spatial perspective. Within ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • From Colonization to Democracy

    A New Historical Geography of South Africa

    by Alan Lester ...
    This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society, including social groupings and their stratification, policital institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure, and ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2

    by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., R. A. Lafferty, Horace B. Fyfe, Lester del Rey, Frank M. Robinson, James McKimmey, Jr., Milton Lesser, Keith Laumer, Mark Clifton, Mari Wolf, Charles L. Fontenay, Kenneth O'Hara, Charles V. De Vet, Don Thompson, Lynn Venable, Winston Marks, Arnold Castle, Tom Godwin, Sam Merwin, Jr., Kris Neville, Ed M. Clinton, Jr., M. C. Pease, Jim Harmon, Robert J. Shea, Frank W. Coggins, Albert Teichner, William Campbell Gault, Charles E. Fritch, E. E. Doc Smith, E. Everett Evans, Albert Hernhunter, Gene Hunter, Arthur G. Hill, Richard O. Lewis, John Sentry, Tom Leahy ...
    Series Book 30 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B' by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 'Do Unto Others' by Mark Clifton 'Robots of the World! Arise!' by Mari Wolf ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Worlds of If Super Pack #3

    by H. B. Fyfe, Milton Lesser, Arthur Dekker Savage, August Derleth, Alan E. Nourse, James Blish, James McKimmey, Jr., Keith Laumer, Mari Wolf, Boyd Ellanby, Alvin Heiner, Don Berry, Mack Reynolds, Kenneth O’Hara, Dave Dryfoos, Jim Harmon, Mark Clifton, R. A. Lafferty, Russ Winterbotham, Richard Wilson, Alex Apostolides, Alfred Coppel, Frank M. Robinson, Ralph Sholto, Russell Burton, Robert Moore Williams, Charles Fontenay, Winston Marks, Jerome Bixby, Andersen Horne, L. Major Reynolds, J. F. Bone ...
    Series Book 31 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’ by Keith Laumer ‘Homo Inferior’ by Mari Wolf ‘The Talkative Tree’ by H.B. Fyfe ‘Show Business’ by ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction Super Pack #3

    Positronic Super Pack Series #53

    by Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton ...
    Series Book 53 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    The Science Fiction Super Pack #3 is the 53rd volume in Positronic Publishing’s best selling Super Pack series. The over two hundred fifty thousand words and six-hundred-fifty pages of exciting science fiction are sure to provide you with hours and hours of reading enjoyment. Blast off to Adventure! ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #1

    by R. A. Lafferty ...
    Series Book 29 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. Here are more than 250,000 words of some of the best stories ever published in its pages. 'The Snowbank Orbit' by Fritz Leiber 'The Victor' by Bryce Walton 'Breeder Reaction' by Winston Marks 'Turning Point' by Alfred ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus