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  • Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation

    by Jonathan Ballou, Bradley Stith, Bill Pranty, Glen Woolfenden, F. Lance Craighead, Ernest Vyse, Rob Roy Ramey II, John A. Wiens, Philip Hedrick, Paul Beier, Michael Gilpin, Jennifer Rechel, Mary Price, Vdernon Bleich, John Wehausen, Walter Koenig, Jon Fischer, William Z. Lidicker Jr., Kevin McKelvey, Richard Merrick, Thomas Loughlin, Ann York, J. W. Fitzpatrick ...
    Development of rural landscapes is converting once-vast expanses of open space into pockets of habitat where wildlife populations exist in isolation from other members of their species. The central concept of metapopulation dynamics -- that a constellation of partially isolated patches can yield overall stability to a system that is chaotic at the level of the individual patch -- offers an ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Cast Out

    Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective

    Edited by A. L. Beier, Paul Ocobock ...
    Series series Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
    Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Fairness and Freedom

    A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living free ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ashley Jackson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place

    Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth

    by Noel Pearson ...
    Series Book 55 - Quarterly Essay
    The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: “We have a committed prime minister, and a committed opposition. We have a receptive electorate. There will never be a better time. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Replenishing the Earth:The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

    The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

    by James Belich ...
    Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.Between 1780 and 1930 the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • A Nation of Immigrants

    Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

    Edited by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca ...
    This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    by Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan ...
    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Beyond the Silence and the Shame

    by Anne Bailey ...
    It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of AtorkorFor centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    by Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Owning the Earth

    The Transforming History of Land Ownership

    by Andro Linklater ...
    From the author of the acclaimed Measuring America, a dazzling chronicle, through history and across cultures, about how the ability to own the land we inhabit has shaped modern society.Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century

    by Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 3 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $42.29 USD