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  • The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–1905

    Space, Mobility and Territoriality

    by Hannah Ewence ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores how fin de siècle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards. The myriad of representations of the ‘alien Jew’ that emerged were the product of, but also a catalyst for, a decisive moment in Britain’s legal history: the fight for the 1905 Aliens Act. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Minorities and the First World War

    From War to Peace

    Edited by Hannah Ewence, Tim Grady ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the particular experience of ethnic, religious and national minorities who participated in the First World War as members of the main belligerent powers: Britain, France, Germany and Russia. Individual chapters explore themes including contested loyalties, internment, refugees, racial violence, genocide and disputed memories from 1914 through into the interwar years to explore ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Visualizing Jews Through the Ages

    Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism

    Edited by Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • The War of the World

    Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe"A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington PostAstonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Nia... ... Read more

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  • The Abyss

    World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of total war—fought between societies as much as armies—and must therefore be understood ... Read more

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  • The Long Shadow

    The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    by David Reynolds, Ph.D. ...
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  • The Diplomat

    Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis

    by Antony Anderson ...
    Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book PrizeSaturday, November 3, 1956The United Nations, New York City about 10 p.m.Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal composed of seventy-eight painstakingly chosen words. These words, shaped by caution and hope, are a last-ditch attempt to ... Read more

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  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, Robert Gerwarth ...
    This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of the Great War

    Ninety Years On

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  • Realpolitik

    A History

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