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  • The Insecurity State

    Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law

    by Peter Ramsay ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    The Insecurity State is a book about the recent emergence of a 'right to security' in the UK's criminal law. The Insecurity State sets out from a detailed analysis of the law of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order and of the Coalition government's proposed replacement for it. It shows that the liabilities contained in both seek to protect a 'freedom from fear'and that this 'right to security' explains ... Read more

    $133.59 CAD

  • Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia

    Edited by Farish Ahmad-Noor, Peter-Brian Ramsay Carey ...
    The colonisation of Southeast Asia was a long and often violent process where numerous military campaigns were waged by the colonial powers across the region. The notion of racial difference was crucial in many of these wars, as native Southeast Asian societies were often framed in negative terms as 'savage' and 'backward' communities that needed to be subdued and 'civilised'. This collection of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Destiny

    The Life of Prince Diponegoro of Yogyakarta, 1785–1855

    by Peter Brian Ramsay Carey ...
    This book is a completely revised version of The Power of Prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855 (2007). A vivid biography of Indonesia’s foremost national hero, it tells the story of a remarkable figure whose life spanned his native Java’s troubled transition to the modern world. It will be read with profit by all those interested in the impact of European ... Read more

    $114.39 CAD

  • Taking Control

    Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

    by Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare, Lee Jones, Peter Ramsay ...
    Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which Europe’s elites transformed their own states in order to rule the void where representative politics used to be. Leaving the EU is a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History Of Malaysia:Linking East And West

    Linking East and West

    by Virginia Matheson Hooker ...
    New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day. One of the last British colonies to achieve independence, Malaysia has been developed by its leaders as a model of rapid modernisation. From an earlier image as a romantic tropical backwater, it is now a self ... Read more

    $12.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beneath Another Sky

    A Global Journey into History

    by Norman Davies ...
    **'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesWhere have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us.**'Human history is a tale not just of constant ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Oceanic Histories

    Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Series series Cambridge Oceanic Histories
    Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Historical Atlas of Indonesia

    by Robert Cribb ...
    This pioneering volume traces the history of the region which became Indonesia, from early times to the present day, in over three hundred specially drawn full-colour maps with detailed accompanying text. In doing so, the Atlas brings fresh life to the fascinating and tangled history of this immense archipelago. Beginning with the geographical and ... Read more

    Was $89.31 CAD Now $79.69 CAD

  • A History of Malaysia

    by Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya ...
    First published in 1982, this text is widely regarded as a leading general history of the country. This new and revised edition brings the story of this fascinating country up to date, incorporating the latest scholarship on every period of Malaysian history, including recent research into pre-modern times. This text thus provides a historical framework that helps explain the roots of the issues ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • A Short History of Indonesia

    The Unlikely Nation?

    by Colin Brown ...
    Islamic, authoritarian, democratic, developing, disintegrating, Indonesia is an enigma to outside observers who have never seemed sure just what it is.The largest country in its region, Indonesia holds the key to Southeast Asia's future, while recent developments (demands for greater regional autonomy, ethnic, political and religious conflict) are making the archipelago significant on the world ... Read more

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  • A History of the World

    by Andrew Marr ...
    Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey, political journalist Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

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