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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Dark Heart of Peacekeeping From: Canada in the World View Fernwood Publishing	War in the Gulf – The Peacekeeping Horizon – The Somalia Affair – “Ethnic Tension” and the Rwanda Genocides – Saint Roméo Dallaire – Paul Kagame, …	Tyler A. Shipley	50	2020	$5.00 Add
From The Den of Arabism From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	The constitution of the Ba’ath Party made a proclamation in its very first line which Washington could have only regarded with deep hostility: “The Arabs are one nation which has its …	Stephen Gowans	55	2017	$5.50 Add
From NEW! The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki From: Myths of Modern History View James Lorimer and Company	Pauwels examines the mythologized narratives surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which America’s mainstream media has long presented as a tragic necessity in order to force …	Jacques R. Pauwels	23	2022	$2.30 Add
The Einstein File The FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist - New Updated Edition Baraka Books	Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other …	Ajamu Baraka; David Suzuki; Fred Jerome	402	2018	View
From The Empire of Japan From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires View Baraka Books	Chapter One The Empire of Japan/i> focuses on the rise of Japanese imperialism and colonialism in Korea. As an emerging industrial power, Japan required access to vital raw materials necessary …	Stephen Gowans	23	2018	$2.30 Add
From NEW! The Era of Neoliberalism Popular Struggles in a Time of Reaction, 1980–2020s From: Humans View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the supremacy of neoliberalism in advanced capitalist societies, particularly in the midst of the dissolution of the Communist bloc, and the increasing disparity between …	Alvin Finkel	40	2024	$4.00 Add
From NEW! The First Decade of Mobutu’s Zaire 1965–1975 From: Postcards from Congo View Arsenal Pulp Press	The chapter explores the first decade of Mobutu’s rule over Zaire (formerly Congo) from 1965 to 1975.	Edmund Trueman	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From NEW! The First Peaceful Transition 2019–2021 From: Postcards from Congo View Arsenal Pulp Press	The final chapter follows the Congo in recent years as it adjusts to new political realities and the evolving pandemics.	Edmund Trueman	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From The First Real Holy War From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires View Baraka Books	In the conclusion, The First Real Holy War Gowans reflects on the long struggle for freedom and the future of colonized states across the world.	Stephen Gowans	3	2018	$0.30 Add
From NEW! The French Revolution From: Myths of Modern History View James Lorimer and Company	The book begins with the myth of the French Revolution, the “original catastrophe” (Urkatastrofe, to use a term coined by German historians) of modern history, and the wars that …	Jacques R. Pauwels	34	2022	$3.40 Add
From NEW! The Great Imperialist War From: Myths of Modern History View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter the author argues against the cliché of conventional historiography that the First World War was a war for democracy, as well as the notion that this war was not a product of …	Jacques R. Pauwels	25	2022	$2.50 Add
From The Heart of Dark Imaginations From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa View Baraka Books	In Chapter 8, Philpot offers a post-colonial critique of how Africa has been portrayed in the Western imagination. Using Dorothy Hammond’s and Alta Jablow’s in-depth study “The …	Robin Philpot	9	2013	$0.90 Add
From The Importance of Being Canadian Carol Off From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa View Baraka Books	In Chapter 10, Philpot examines Carol Off’s essay “The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle.” Off’s essay the is about author’s heroes, Roméo Dallaire (“the …	Robin Philpot	10	2013	$1.00 Add
From The Knowledge of Suffering From: In Search of a Better World View House of Anansi Press	In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recounting his own experiences coming to Canada from Iran as a result of the upheval of the 1970s. He interweaves personal …	Payam Akhavan	76	2017	$9.12 Add
The Legacy of Tiananmen Square	More than 20 years after the Tiananmen Square uprising, Michel Cormier, CBC Television’s former China correspondent, examines the still-born legacy of the Tiananmen Square student protests …		240		View
From The Long Ladder of Shame From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, the author suggests that people like her – a trans Chicana sex worker who is chronically homeless – are terrorized by America’s obsession with pathogenic medicine.	C.L. Severson	5	2021	$0.50 Add