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  • World Indivisible

    With Liberty and Justice for All

    Translated by Richard Winston, Clara Winston ...
    Series series World Perspectives
    Originally published in the UK in 1956, this book presents the essence of the political philosophy of one of Europe’s best-known post-war statesmen, as well as his experience in government as head of Germany in one of its most critical periods of history. The role of Germany in a (then) new Europe is discussed, along with its rearmament, its greatly restored economic power and its relation to NATO ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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  • Diplomacy

    A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • American Diplomacy

    These lectures on American diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century are "a classic foreign policy text" ( Washington Post Book World).For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • All Against All

    The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

    "This crisply written, well-documented account . . . examines diplomatic, military, political and economic developments in a crucial period leading up to WWII" ( Publishers Weekly)All Against All is the story of how a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, put the postwar world back on the path to global conflict. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals how domestic passions within various ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Modern Germany

    1800 to the Present

    Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present.Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changesFeatures updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Omnipotent Government

    Liberty is not, as the German precursors of Nazism asserted, a negative ideal. Whether a concept is presented in an affirmative or in a negative form is merely a question of idiom. Freedom from want is tantamount to the expression striving after a state of affairs under which people are better supplied with necessities. Freedom of speech is tantamount to a state of affairs under which everybody ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Grand Illusion?

    An Essay on Europe

    by Tony Judt ...
    "Tony Judt's elegant essay is a good place to begin discussion of these two large postwar questions: What is Europe? And where is it going?" — Michael Mandelbaum, Johns Hopkins University*"I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German History in Modern Times

    Four Lives of the Nation

    This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Behemoth

    The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

    Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Dawn Of Universal History

    Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth Century

    by Raymond Aron ...
    In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and the subsequent disintegration of her empires. With a richness of detail and sweeping breadth of historical examples, he chronicles and analyzes the history of the opposite ideological extremes of Fascism and Marxism and their descent into ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Bismarck and the German Empire

    1871–1918

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history.Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the latest research, the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD