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From  From the HipChapter 2 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In From the Hip, Pierrot explores the etymology of the word ‘hip’ and how it has been used over the centuries, before delving deeper into the larger history of white hegemonic culture … | Grégory Pierrot | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NEW! "Hitler’s War?"From: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter confronts the myth that Hitler was personally responsible for the Second World War, when– in reality– he shared responsibility with others, namely Germany’s … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Hockey Night in Canada |
The author recalls the death of a co-worker from AIDS, how a group of gay friends cared for one of their own who was dying of AIDS while his family watched Hockey Night in Canada, and his own … | Berend McKenzie | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS |
This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … | Sassafras Lowrey | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  How Is the Empire? |
In Chapter 7, Philpot examines the meaning behind former Secretary General Boutros-Ghali’s 1998 statement that “the Americans were one hundred percent responsible” for the … | Robin Philpot | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
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From  HubrisFrom: History's People |
In this chapter, MacMillan examines how hubris shaped the actions of four leaders across the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler. | Margaret MacMillan | 70 | 2015 | $7.00 Add |
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From  Humanitarianism and the Invention of EmergencyFrom: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and … | Maximilian C. Forte | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Imperialism |
Chapter Four focuses on Israel’s ties to imperialism. The chapter explores how Israel had aided in the imperial mission of the West in the Middle East and how its own interests tie in with … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Imperialism |
Chapter two, Imperialism focuses on defining imperialism and how it relates to both the history of Korea and its present day geopolitics. Imperialism is the activity, enterprise and methodology … | Stephen Gowans | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
 In Search of a Better WorldA Human Rights Odyssey |
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human … | Payam Akhavan | 401 | 2017 | View |
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From In the Name of Peace and Democracy |
In Chapter 2, Philpot discusses the larger political atmosphere of the Great Lakes region in East Africa before the war, and how with the aid of the Western powers, Paul Kagame, and the Rwandan … | Robin Philpot | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Independence and Chaos1960–1961 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the creation of the independent Republic of Congo and the ensuing political fall out between 1960 and 1961. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From International Criminal Justice as "Battering Ram" |
In Chapter 13, Philpot examines the ad hoc criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He does this to discuss the injustice and inept of the tribunal, which the founding resolution … | Robin Philpot | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From IntroductionLiberalism and the New Scramble for Africa From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
Maximilian C. Forte | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add | |
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From Introduction |
In the introduction, Robert Philpot reflects on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the shooting down of the Rwandan president’s plane which triggered war, destruction, and massacres in … | Robin Philpot | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Introduction |
From 1963 onward, Syrian governments in which Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party members Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar played principal roles, were committed to the Arab nationalist values of … | Stephen Gowans | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
