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  • Machines as the Measure of Men

    Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance

    by Michael Adas ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Comparative History
    Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Prophets of Rebellion

    Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order

    by Michael Adas ...
    Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German East Africa (1903-6), and Burma (1930-32). Arranged topically to emphasize comparative patterns, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • State, Market and Peasant in Colonial South and Southeast Asia

    by Michael Adas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia
    The essays collected in this volume, first published in 1998, address the profound changes and disruptions wrought in peasant societies as a result of European colonial domination and the spread of the capitalist world economy from its European base. Detailed case study evidence is included in the essays, and all are aimed at delineating broader patterns and addressing general questions and ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Essays on Twentieth-Century History

    Edited by Michael Adas ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives On The P
    In the sub-field of world history, there has been a surprising paucity of thinking and writing about how to approach and conceptualize the long twentieth century from the 1870s through the early 2000s. The historiographic essays collected in Essays on Twentieth Century History will go a long way to filling that lacuna.Each contribution covers a key theme and one or more critical sub-fields in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Technology and European Overseas Enterprise

    Diffusion, Adaptation and Adoption

    Edited by Michael Adas ...
    Series series An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
    Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas. This volume illustrates the ways in which these European technological advantages shaped the expansion of the global system, whilst making clear ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Call It What You Want

    by Alissa DeRogatis ...
    Narrated by Ada Sinclair, Michael Gallagher ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake—you can call it what you want. But was it love?It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of.The last thing ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa

    Shifting Mobilization

    by Tolulope Adeogun, Victor Adesiyan, Bamidélé Aly, Patricia Ogugua Anwuluorah, Jude Chinwuba Asike, Abidemi Abiola Isola, Auroara Nikkels, Kialee Nyiayaana, Soj Ojo, Olanrewaju Atanda Orija, Grayson Michael Posey, Maureen Ada Uche, Bradford Whitener, Meshack Owino, J. Mark Souther ...
    Series series Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
    Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization, edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin, questions whether identity is providing and sustaining power for elites, or fueling oppression and conflicts, being mobilized for exclusionary movements versus inclusive societal changes, or educating in ways that foster progress and development. Do aspects of African ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Engaging the Diaspora

    Migration and African Families

    by Amy Duffuor, Amon Okpala, Iheanyichukwu N. Osondu, Joya Uraizee, Khadidja Arfi, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers, Michael Kremer, Ifeyinwa Mbakogu ...
    Series series The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
    By its focus on the African immigrant family, Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families carves its own niche on the migration discourse. It brings together the experiences of African immigrant families as defined by various transnational forces. As an interdisciplinary text, Engaging makes a handy reference for scholars and researchers in institutions of higher learning, as well as for ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    A Drama of Exile (Unabridged)

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    by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ...
    Narrated by Michael Taylor, Maureen Vega, Margarite Whitmore, Ada Kitchen ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 1 min

    In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness'. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully describe the grief and guilt of Eve, the sorrowful pride of Lucifer, and the redeeming power of love. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    by David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Political Order

    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... Read more

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  • Global Crisis

    War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century.Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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