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'Here Is Hell'
Grant Dawson’s analysis of political, diplomatic, and militarydecision making avoids a narrow focus on the shocking offences of a fewCanadian soldiers, deftly investigating the broader context of thedeployment in Somalia. He shows how media pressure, government optimismabout the United Nations, and the Canadian traditions ofmultilateralism and pe …
<i>Orienting</i> Canada
Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society toa multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in thePacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narrativesin Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism andCanadian foreign policy. Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racisttheory, this book reassess …
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by theBournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on Britishessayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the RomanticMovement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabeticallyarranged by author wit …
A Companion to Under the Volcano
An item-by-item discussion of the innumerable, often obscure detailsof Malcolm Lowry's novel, this book comprises 1,600 notes coveringsome 7,000 specific points. The notes are keyed to page numbers in thePenguin paperback and the two standard hardback editions. Theappendices include a glossary, bibliography, maps of the region, and anindex of motif …
A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau
Early hunter/gatherer societies have traditionally been consideredbasically egalitarian in nature. This assumption, however, has beenchallenged by contemporary archaeological and anthropological research,which has demonstrated that many of these societies had complex social,economic, and political structures. This volume considers two BritishColumb …
A Consolidated Index to the Canadian Yearbook of International Law
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has beenpublished under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of theInternational Law Association since 1963. Each volume contains articleson important and topical issues as well as book reviews, notes andcomments, sections on Canadian practice in international law, a digestof important cases, and commentari …