Drawing on unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton brings home what it was like for the young men, some no more than sixteen years old, who clawed their way up the sodden, shell-torn slopes in a struggle they innocently...
Nationalism
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Author:Abujidi, NurhanSummary:Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial...
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In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's...
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Author:Litt, PaulSummary:In 1968, Canadians dared to take a chance on a new kind of politician. Pierre Trudeau became the leader of the Liberal Party in April and two months later won the federal election. His meteoric rise to power was driven by Trudeaumania,...
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Author:Ignatieff, MichaelSummary:With an updated preface by the author. Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card...
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The author reaches back to the Cold War to trace the genesis of early twenty-first century Russia. Describes the propagandists, oligarchs, and fixers who worked to set Russia's course after the collapse of the Soviet Union and discusses...
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Author:Summary:"The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and challenging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a large proportion of new...
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Author:Glenny, MishaSummary:From the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket comes this unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century which gives readers the essential historical background to more than one hundred years...
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Author:Vacante, JefferySummary:This perceptive intellectual history explores the role of manhood in French Canadian culture and nationalism. In the late nineteenth century, Quebec was still an agrarian society and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and...
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1908. The French rule Saigon. Georges-Minh, a Vietnamese national and Paris-educated physician, nurses a secret loathing for the French connections that have made him rich, even as they have torn his beloved country apart. With a group...
- Author:Morrison, Ian A.Summary:
In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and minorities has been represented as a threat to the province's once staunchly Catholic, and now resolutely...
- Author:Reid, JenniferSummary:
Since he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of...
- Author:Gagnon, CharlesSummary:
Dans cet essai, Charles Gagnon réfléchit à la place qu’occupe aujourd’hui, à l’échelle de la planète, un Québec pieds et poings liés par les politiques néolibérales des multinationales ; il propose également une nouvelle approche de la...
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Author:Meunier, E.-MartinSummary:Cet ouvrage, avec ses contributions tantôt essayistes, tantôt savantes, cherche à approfondir la réflexion sur le Québec contemporain afin de mieux comprendre la nature des mutations qui le transforment profondément aujourd'hui....
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A riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic. As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a...
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Author:Huhndorf, Shari M.Summary:Since the 1800s, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances...
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Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:Historian Ramsay Cook called George Grant one of Canada's two most important political thinkers in the twentieth century. In these lively conversations, recorded not long before Grant's death, David Cayley explores with Grant the deep...
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Substate nationalism is often studied as a question of political identity and cultural recognition. The same applies to the study of multinational federalism - it is mainly conceived as a tool for the accommodation of minority cultures...
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Author:Gordon-Walker, CaitlinSummary:Canada’s brand of nationalism celebrates diversity – so long as it doesn’t challenge the unity, authority, or legitimacy of the state. Caitlin Gordon-Walker explores this tension between unity and diversity in three nationally...
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