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Northern Spirits

John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought

By: Robert Sibley

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Northern Spirits

John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought

By: Robert Sibley

The recovery of Watson's thought is particularly valuable. Sibley shows that Watson, an internationally respected philosopher in the early twentieth century, discussed idealism and support for imperialism in ways that are particularly relevant in our new age of empire. A consideration of Grant's relationship to Hegel illuminates what led Grant to declare that Canada was "impossible" in the age of technology. Sibley's comparison of Grant and Trudeau is both unexpected and intriguing. So, too, is his analysis of the "illiberal strands" in Taylor's "politics of recognition.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773574999

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9780773574991

Selected Poems and Songs

By: Robert Burns

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Selected Poems and Songs

By: Robert Burns

The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet's death. The edition also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words.

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OUP Oxford

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0191633135

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May Days in Hong Kong

Riot and Emergency in 1967

By: Robert Bickers,Ray Yep

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May Days in Hong Kong

Riot and Emergency in 1967

By: Robert Bickers,Ray Yep

This is the first sustained exploration of the anti-colonial campaign that was inspired by the Cultural Revolution in China, recent events in Macao, and fuelled by inequalities in Hong Kong society. The riots presented a sustained challenge to British authority. As leftist-led demonstrations evolved into a terrorist bombing campaign, the British security response was also markedly strengthened. Using recently opened archival records, the authors explore the course of the events, their international and imperial contexts, and their connection to the upheaval in China, and Britain's own changing world role. The events of 1967 are also grounded in the wider sweep of Hong Kong's history.The second part of the book presents testimonies from Hong Kong residents, participants in different ways in the unfolding events, which speak to the salience of 1967 in Hong Kong's popular memory. There has been an awkward silence about this episode for almost forty years, and this book begins to normalize discussion about it, and its place in Hong Kong, Chinese and British imperial history.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622099998

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9789622099999

Wodehouse

A Life

By: Robert McCrum

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Wodehouse

A Life

By: Robert McCrum

He had an extraordinary Broadway career, wrote 90 novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves and the Empress of Blandings. McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393051595

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9780393051599

The Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime--Hong Kong 1997 and Beyond

By: Richard E. McConnell,Richard Esterbrook McConnell,Robert John Wagman

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The Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime--Hong Kong 1997 and Beyond

By: Richard E. McConnell,Richard Esterbrook McConnell,Robert John Wagman

Memories of Tiananmen Square still color our impressions of China as a repressive, dictatorial society in which freedom is only a dream for the common citizen. Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Today's China is a nation in which people are encouraged to excel in all fields of endeavor, particularly in business. Indications are that after the British Crown relinquishes its 99-year lease, Hong Kong will remain an open, international business center, a free market, and a level playing field for the potential investor. Investment managers Richard E. McConnell, Sr. and Richard E. McConnell, Jr. counsel Western investors to look to the East as a source of great financial promise. The Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime - Hong Kong 1997 takes you on a tour of the burgeoning opportunities which are opening as Hong Kong regains its own sovereignty.

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1565302419

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China Bound

John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980

By: Robert Bickers

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China Bound

John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980

By: Robert Bickers

From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization. Robert Bickers' remarkable new book is the history of a business, and of its worlds, of modern China, Britain, and of the globalization that entangled them, of compradors, ship-owners, and seamen, sugar travellers, tea-tasters, and stuff merchants, revolutionaries, pirates and Taipans. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in global commerce, China Bound provides an intimate history that helps explain the shape of Asia today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472949951

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Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire

State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963

By: Robert L. Tignor

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Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire

State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963

By: Robert L. Tignor

The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative method in order to explain the different decolonizing narratives in each territory, he argues that the different state policies toward the private business sector and foreign capital were the result of nationalist policies and attitudes and the influence of Cold War pressures on local events. Using business records as well as official government sources, the work highlights the economic aspects of decolonization and weighs the influence of nationalist movements, changes in metropolitan attitudes toward the empire, and shifts in the international balance of power in bringing about the transfer of authority. The author concludes that the business communities did not play decisive roles, adhering instead to their time-honored role of leaving political issues to colonial officials and their nationalist critics. Tignor also finds that the nationalist movements, far from being ineffective, largely realized the primary goals of nationalist leaders that had been articulated for many decades. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400873002

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9781400873005

The Corruption Cure

How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft

By: Robert I. Rotberg

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The Corruption Cure

How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft

By: Robert I. Rotberg

Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. Here, Rotberg puts some 35 countries under an anti-corruption microscope to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191573

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9780691191577

Controlling Corruption

By: Robert Klitgaard

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Controlling Corruption

By: Robert Klitgaard

Assesses the problem of corruption in developing economics, suggests guidelines for creating anti-corruption policies, and looks at five successful cases.

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Univ of California Press

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0520074084

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9780520074088

Fielding's Far East

By: Antoinette DeLand,Robert Miller

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Fielding's Far East

By: Antoinette DeLand,Robert Miller

A noted authority on the Far East, Antoinette DeLand has been both a resident and a frequent visitor to this exciting part of the globe for over twenty years. Her many articles appear in major publications here and abroad. 15 photos. 30 maps.

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William Morrow

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0688080464

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9780688080464

Victory to Defeat

The British Army 1918–40

By: Richard Dannatt,Robert Lyman

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Victory to Defeat

The British Army 1918–40

By: Richard Dannatt,Robert Lyman

A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain. The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-won knowledge, experience and strategic vision that delivered victory after victory in the closing stages of the First World War had been lost. In the inter-war years there was plenty of talking, but very little focus on who Britain might have to fight, and how. Victory to Defeat clearly illustrates how the British Army wasn't prepared to fight a first-class European Army in 1939 for the simple reason that as a country Britain hadn't prepared itself to do so. The failure of the army's leadership led directly to its abysmal performance in Norway and France in 1940. Victory to Defeat is a captivating history of the mismanagement of a war-winning army. It is also a stark warning that we neglect to understand who our enemy might be, and how to defeat him, at the peril of our country. The British Army is now to be cut to its smallest size since 1714. Are we, this book asks, repeating the same mistakes again?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472860810

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Victorian Afterlives

The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-century Literature

By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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Victorian Afterlives

The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-century Literature

By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

This book is one of the most impressive critical analyses of nineteenth-century literary culture that I have read in a long time. A closely written and argued discussion of theories of literary influence in a nineteenth-century context, it ranges widely and makes always interesting and sometimes brilliant connections...This is a major work of Victorian literary criticism, and a book to be read over and over again for its myriad insights and felicities.' -Tennyson Research Bulletin'Close readings unravel the manner in which 'dead' voices haunt Tennyson's poetry, and the author is uncommonly sharp-eared for nuance.' -Scotland on Sunday'Ambitious, delightful, frustrating, wide-ranging, often beautifully written... Its sheer range sets it apart from the usual academic monograph... refreshingly free of jargon.' -Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement'One of the enjoyable features of Douglas-Fairhurst's writing is its commitment to close reading. He can make a word or line come alive by a turn of phrase which resonantly prolongs its momentum.' -Angela Leighton, Times Literary SupplementThis major study examines a Victorian obsession with 'influence', the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory and sanitation reform. For writers such as Tennyson, FitzGerald and Dickens, the idea is both a theoretical and a practical problem.Survival is not only what their writing critically examines, but also what it sets out to achieve.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198187270

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9780198187271

The Jewish Body

A History

By: Robert Jütte

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The Jewish Body

A History

By: Robert Jütte

An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the "Jewish body" as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent in exile. From consideration of traditional body stereotypes, such as the so-called Jewish nose, to matters of gender and sexuality, sickness and health, and the inevitable end of the body in death, The Jewish Body explores the historical foundations of the human physis in all its aspects.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812297652

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9780812297652

A History of the Battle of Bannockburn

By: Robert White

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A History of the Battle of Bannockburn

By: Robert White

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382169991

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9783382169992

Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism"

Diaspora Nationalism and the World History of the Jews

By: Robert Seltzer

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Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism"

Diaspora Nationalism and the World History of the Jews

By: Robert Seltzer

In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism espoused by contemporaries, he argued in “Letter on Old and New Judaism” that the Jews of the diaspora constituted a distinctive nationality deserving cultural autonomy in the liberal multi-national state he hoped would emerge in Russia. Seltzer traces the young Dubnow’s personal encounter with European intellectual currents that led him from the traditional shtetl world to a non-religious conception of Jewishness that resonated beyond Tsarist Russia.

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BRILL

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9004260676

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Northern Spirits

Northern Spirits

Selected Poems and Songs

Selected Poems and Songs

May Days in Hong Kong

May Days in Hong Kong

Wodehouse

Wodehouse

The Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime--Hong Kong 1997 and Beyond

The Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime--Hong Kong 1997 and Beyond

China Bound

China Bound

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire

The Corruption Cure

The Corruption Cure

Controlling Corruption

Controlling Corruption

Fielding's Far East

Fielding's Far East

Victory to Defeat

Victory to Defeat

Victorian Afterlives

Victorian Afterlives

The Jewish Body

The Jewish Body

A History of the Battle of Bannockburn

A History of the Battle of Bannockburn

Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism"

Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism"

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