Jane Smiley
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently ... [... more]
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Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial ...
 Author: Robert K Home Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 307.12609171241 EAN: 9780419202301 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0419202307 Number Of Pages: 249 Publication Date: 1996-11-01 [... more]
CDN$171.91
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Charles Abiodun Alao
The Mau Mau Freedom Fighters waged a guerrilla war for eight years (1952-1960) against their British colonial rulers, which became known as the Mau Mau Uprising. The Mau Mau sought to win back their land and independence. This underground militia ... [... more]
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Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
not a good book: Im afraid, Romilas out of date, marxist views of India are not in line with current scholarly thinking, in light of many recent archaeological findings. Tharpar is nothing more than the product of the British education system, that [... more]
CDN$22.87
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Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, ...
highly original and thoroughly convincing: Collingham's incisive study focuses on the bodily practices of British men and women of the Raj: their diets, diseases, physical relationships with their servants, etc. She brings a fresh perspective to the [... more]
CDN$91.99
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Girls at War
Great stories by a master writer: This is an impressive collection of short stories that covers a twenty-year period of Achebe's writing. They also cover a period of history in his native Nigeria that spans from the late colonial period to the Biafran [... more]
CDN$13.13
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20th Century 02 Collected Short Stories
Unforeseen Twists of Fate: As a master of the short story, W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was the highest paid author in the 1930's. He was born in the British Embassy in Paris, on January 25, 1874. He wrote with a sense of irony and wit. Often, he [... more]
CDN$22.50
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Amazon.ca: Young Vikram Lall's in-betweenness as an Indian in Kenya is brought home to him when he and his sister Deepa become close friends with an African boy, Njoroge, and two English children, Bill and Annie. It is 1953, and while the Lall family [... more]
CDN$15.00
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Khaki and Blue: Military and Police in British Colonial ...
Author: Anthony Clayton Author: David Killingray Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 363.209660097521 EAN: 9780896801479 ISBN: 0896801470 Number Of Pages: 347 Publication Date: 1988-06 [... more]
CDN$30.10
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Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
This is an excellent book: Arnold Genthe was a German doctor of philosophy who arrived in San Francisco in 1895. He was fascinated by the Chinese and used his skill as an amatuer photographer to take over 200 photos of Chinatown's "Tangrenbu" [... more]
CDN$18.50
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Before the Knife
a harrowing, beautiful book about survival: If you've read that this is a book about a child raped by her father, you may well want to give it a miss. But you shouldn't, because although the horror of this event (which Slaughter, unlike most, finds [... more]
CDN$18.00
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Out of Africa (Widescreen)
Additional Features: Sydney Pollack's approach to audio commentary for DVD editions of his films is different from that of most other directors. Instead of detailing each scene of Out of Africa, for example, Pollack paints in broad strokes, talking about [... more]
CDN$19.95
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