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  • Trading with the Enemy

    Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order

    by John Shovlin ...
    A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competitionBritain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a “Second Hundred Years’ War.” Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Commerce versus Conquest

    The Political Economy of Jean-François Melon

    Edited by John Shovlin, Koen Stapelbroek ...
    Series series Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
    Jean-François Melon (1675–1738) was the most widely read European political economist before Adam Smith. This book is the first collection dedicated to exploring the context, message, and reach of Melon’s work.The leitmotif of commerce versus conquest offers a key to Melon’s vision. He argued that a new kind of commercial state must displace the war-oriented regimes of the past. The vitality of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Letters of John McGahern

    by John McGahern ...
    I am no good at letters. John McGahern, 1963John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged with family, friends and literary luminaries - such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon - over the course of a well-travelled life.It ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    by Jacques Lacoursière, Robin Philpot ...
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  • The London of Jack the Ripper: Then and Now

    by Robert Clack, Philip Hutchinson ...
    The London of Jack the Ripper: Then and Now' is a photographic journey through the London of Jack the Ripper as it was when he stalked the mean streets and alleyways of the Capital.Robert Clack and Philip Hutchinson take the reader on a step-by-step tour of the crime scenes, giving a detailed history of the victims, the crimes and the police investigation.Using many previously unpublished ... Read more

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  • Along a River

    The First French-Canadian Women

    by Jan Noel ...
    French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the ... Read more

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  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Canada's Entrepreneurs

    From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

    by Andrew Ross, Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Dictionary of Canadian Biography
    Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it.This captivating ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Odd Boy Out

    The hilarious and unforgettable Sunday Times bestselling autobiography

    by Gyles Brandreth ...
    The compelling, witty and remarkably honest autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity GoggleboxTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, ribald, eye-popping, unforgettable, will make you laugh out loud' DAILY MAIL'Warm, witty, charming. A moving and very affectionate family history. An enthusiast for life' THE TIM... ... Read more

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  • The Union of the Canadas 1841-1857

    The Growth of Canadian Institutions

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series Book 10 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume X of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.J.M.S. Careless looks at how the Act of Union of 1841, which was ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour

    by Michael Powell ...
    Series Book 159 - Mammoth Books
    A doorstopper of a collection of the very best of both contemporary and classic British wit and humour. From Monty Python's 'Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more . . .' to Dan Antopolski's 'Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?'. From George Bernard Shaw to Michael McIntyre, from Eric Morecombe to Omid Djalili, and from Oscar Wilde to Jimmy Carr, a side-splitting look at Britain, the ... Read more

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    by D. Michael Jackson ...
    Following Queen Elizabeth II's historic Diamond Jubilee in 2012, there is renewed interest in the institution of the Crown in Canada and the roles of the queen, governor general, and lieutenant governor. Author D. Michael Jackson traces the story of the monarchy and the Crown and shows how they are integral to Canada's parliamentary democracy. His book underscores the Crown's key contribution to ... Read more

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