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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “francine hirsch”
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  • Empire of Nations

    Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

    by Francine Hirsch ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

    A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II

    by Francine Hirsch ...
    Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes — and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and ground-breaking book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been omitted from standard accounts ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Empire of Cotton

    A Global History

    by Sven Beckert ...
    The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
 
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Alexander II

    The Last Great Tsar

    by Edvard Radzinsky ...
    Translated by Antonina Bouis ...
    A gripping historical biography of Russia’s reformist tsar and tragic ruler, this vivid account of Alexander II blends royal intrigue, political revolution, and the birth of modern terrorism amid the turbulent age of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the Romanovs.Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Caucasus

    An Introduction

    by Thomas de Waal ...
    In this fascinating book, noted journalist Thomas de Waal--author of the highly acclaimed Black Garden--makes the case that while the Caucasus is often treated as a sub-plot in the history of Russia, or as a mere gateway to Asia, the five-day war in Georgia, which flared into a major international crisis in 2008, proves that this is still a combustible region, whose inner dynamics and history ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Cuba

    A Brief History

    by Sergio Guerra Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola Vega ...
    A concise, readable and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country’s turbulent history.Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba’s struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro’s decision to step down from office, to ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Uyghur Nation

    Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

    by David Brophy ...
    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Another Winter, Another Spring

    A Love Remembered

    by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence ...
    Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, Another Winter, Another Spring is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffering. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia’s War in Afghanistan

    by David Isby ...
    Series Book 178 - Men-at-Arms
    A comprehensive study of both sides in the Afghan war.In this compact edition, published in the midst of the conflict as it was happening, David Isby examines Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the war of 1979-1989. The origins and conduct of the war and the operational organisation of Soviet forces are discussed, and Afghan resistance and weaponry is also explored.Featuring colour plates by Ron ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia

    by Edward Dennis Sokol ...
    Series Book 71 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    The classic study of resistance to Tsarist Russian colonialism, the genocide that followed, and its connection to the Bolshevik Revolution.In 1916, Tzar Nicholas II began drafting Russian subjects across Central Asia to fight in World War I. By summer, the widespread resistance of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks turned into an outright revolt. The Russian Imperial Army killed ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

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

    by Leah Trachtman-Palchan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • China's Last Imperial Frontier

    Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands

    by Xiuyu Wang ...
    China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftaincies and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by redrawing the politically diverse frontier into a system of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD