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  • Adam Smith and the East India Company

    by Mark Donoghue ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    This book examines Adam Smith’s perspectives on the India question during a pivotal juncture when the East India Company evolved from a commercial enterprise into a de facto imperial authority in India. Smith astutely recognised the significance of this transition and anticipated its potential to unleash societal change. Yet despite the importance of his observations in The Wealth of Nations, ... Read more

    Was $64.99 USD Now $57.99 USD

  • Faithful Victorian

    William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880

    by Mark Donoghue ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ashley Jackson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines ... Read more

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  • Democratic Government in Canada, 5th Ed

    by R. MacGregor Dawson, W.F. Dawson, Norman Ward ...
    For more than a generation this concise survey has been the classic introduction to the fundamental ideas and structure of Canadian government and the practice of democracy in this country. It examines the various elements of federal government — the House of Commons, the cabinet, the Senate, the monarchy and governor-general, the public service, and the courts — and of provincial and municipal ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Outsourcing Empire

    How Company-States Made the Modern World

    by Professor Andrew Phillips, J. C. Sharman ...
    How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove ... Read more

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  • Apartheid In South Africa - Origins And Impact

    by Seth Asiedu Asante ...
    This book was first published in 1987 when South African Apartheid policy generated much public discussion all over the world. This book, “Apartheid in South Africa: Origins and Impact", is a book which can serve the dual purpose of informing the general reader, of the historical background to Apartheid; and of placing a textbook at the disposal of students preparing for various examinations on ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Kingdom

    150 Years of Constitutional Monarchy

    Edited by D. Michael Jackson ...
    An integral part of Canada’s political culture, the constitutional monarchy has evolved over the 150 years since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution.Canada inherited the constitutional monarchy from Britain even before Confederation in 1867. In the 150 years since then, the Crown has shaped, and been shaped by, Canada’s achievement of independence, its robust federalism, the ... Read more

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  • Land Matters

    South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track? In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present and future of the land question in South Africa. Going back in history, he shows how Africans’ communal systems of landownership were used by colonial rulers to ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

    by Andrew Hood, Tony Benn ...
    Do we need a Monarchy? Or does it represent everything that is hidebound and stifling about Britain? The headlines tell the story: every British Institution is in crisis As a nation we have lost our way, What we have always been smugly told, is false. Our constitution is NOT the best in the world, nor is our legal system the fairest, nor is our society more open, nor are we freer than other ... Read more

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  • Mhlongamvula & Its Dark Secrets

    by Nelson Makhubane Tshabalala ...
    In a grand, immensely readable and yet original synthesis of historical and cultural analysis about the dark secrets of the ancient Tshabalala Clan in Mhlongamvula, a distinguished scholar and prize winning author and historian, Nelson Makhubane Tshabalala, depicts much more than a break with Mhlongamvula. For those who read a previous title of this author, namely: 'Chronicles Of Tshabalala Clan ... Read more

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  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, Tracey Lindberg ...
    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD