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  • Heroic imperialists in Africa

    The promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870–1939

    by Berny Sèbe ...
    Series Book 106 - Studies in Imperialism
    From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising mission’. This book looks at imperial heroism by examining the legends of a dozen major colonial ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Echoes of Empire

    Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies

    Edited by Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sebe, Gabrielle Maas ...
    How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonized states reversal or retribution? This groundbreaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Decolonising Imperial Heroes

    Cultural legacies of the British and French Empires

    Edited by Max Jones, Berny Sèbe, Bertrand Taithe, Peter Yeandle ...
    The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at the end of empire.Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after 1945, as ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Decolonising Europe?

    Popular Responses to the End of Empire

    Edited by Berny Sèbe, Matthew G. Stanard ...
    Series series Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
    Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Edited by Patrick Mannion, Fearghal McGarry ...
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    How the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and eventsThe Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Intervention

    A History

    Edited by Brendan Simms, D. J. B. Trim ...
    The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth ... Read more

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  • New Zealand's France

    by Alistair Watts ...
    In New Zealand's France, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective — one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view prevalent in the current New Zealand historiography. That New Zealand became British in the 1840s owes much, Dr Watts contends, to that other great colonial power of the time, France. The rich history of British ... Read more

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  • Civilization

    The West and the Rest

    by Niall Ferguson ...
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  • The English and Their History

    by Robert Tombs ...
    A New York Times 2016 Notable BookRobert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever ... Read more

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  • Uncommon People

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    A fascinating collection of essays concerning working men and women.These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social protest - the formation of the British working class, labour custom and traditions, the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, male and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A History of International Thought

    From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations

    by Lucian Ashworth ...
    International thought is the product of major political changes over the last few centuries, especially the development of the modern state and the industrialisation of the world economy. While the question of how to deal with strangers from other communities has been a constant throughout human history, it is only in recent centuries that the question of ‘foreign relations’ (and especially ... Read more

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  • That Sweet Enemy

    The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present

    by Isabelle Tombs, Robert Tombs ...
    From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection.In the nearly two centuries since the final defeat of Napoleon, France and Britain have spent much of that time as allies - an alliance that has been almost as uneasy, ... Read more

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