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  • Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence

    by François Duchêne ...
    “A brilliant biography of one of the pivotal and least likely creators of a new European world. Monnet’s career in international affairs began with his place on an Anglo-French supply mission to the United States in World War I, flourished in World War II, and had its lasting impact with the postwar Monnet plan for economic renewal in France and his push for Franco-German reconciliation through ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • New Limits on European Agriculture

    Politics and the Common Agricultural Policy

    by François Duchêne, Edward Szczepanik, Wilfrid Legg ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Agribusiness and Land Use
    Until about 1970, Western Europe was regarded as the great food-importing region of the world. Over the next 15 years it also became a major food exporter. This study, originally published in 1985, analyses the expansionary policies of individual nations, as well as those of the Community itself, which have helped produce this momentous reversal of Western Europe’s traditional role. The phenomenon ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The General

    Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

    by Jonathan Fenby ...
    No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as “carrying France on [his] shoulders.”In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler’s Germany. Thereafter, he ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Why Save the Bankers?

    And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands, threatening democracy. For years, his newspaper ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I.“A rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking.” — AtlanticThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

    $11.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Certain Idea of France

    The Life of Charles de Gaulle

    by Julian Jackson ...
    **The inspiration for the acclaimed 2026 film De Gaulle: Resistance**Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du Touquet'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times</... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tax Havens

    How Globalization Really Works

    by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they have, then this book is for you! This recent text by well-recognized experts in the field is a most welcome addition to the literatures.... It fills an important void, since there was not until now a general but nevertheless ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Economic Weapon

    The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

    by Nicholas Mulder ...
    The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this developmentEconomic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • An Extraordinary Time

    The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

    by Marc Levinson ...
    The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped badly, then settled into the slow, erratic growth that had been the norm before the war. The result ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The German Empire

    A Short History

    by Michael Sturmer ...
    Series Book 4 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Euro Crisis and Its Aftermath

    by Jean Pisani-Ferry ...
    The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 took European policymakers by surprise and forced them to design responses to a quickly deteriorating situation. Even though Europe has final begun to stabilize, the disparity between the prosperous Northern countries, especially Germany, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD