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  • Smuggled

    An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia

    by Julie Kalman, Ruth Balint ...
    Uncover the untold stories of refugees and their smugglers in Australia's immigration history.People smugglers are often demonized, but Smuggled reveals a rich history beyond the headlines. This book recounts the journeys of refugees to Australia since World War II, from Holocaust survivors to those fleeing Vietnam, the Middle East, and Africa.Based on original research and personal interviews, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Troubled Waters

    Borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea

    by Ruth Balint ...
    Joint winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2003.Troubled Waters tells the story of Australia's northern waters and their dramatic transformation in the twentieth century from a backwater to the most militarised and fiercely guarded region in Australia. Once a bridge between two coastlines and two cultures, the Timor Sea has become, in the last years of the twentieth century, the nation ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Destination Elsewhere

    Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe

    by Ruth Balint ...
    In this unique "history from below," Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World War. The struggle to define who was a displaced person and who was not was a subject of intense debate and deliberation among humanitarians, international law experts, immigration planners, and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Russians in Cold War Australia

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Phillip Deery, Ruth Balint, Boris Frankel, Elena Govor, Ellen Gray, Justine Greenwood, Philip Mendes, Mara Moustafine0, Ebony Nilsson1, Jayne Persian2, Nicholas Pitt3 ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants' avowed anti-communism ... Read more

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  • When Migrants Fail to Stay

    New Histories on Departures and Migration

    Edited by Dr Ruth Balint, Joy Damousi, Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series New Directions in Social and Cultural History
    The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refugees stranded in Europe, China and Africa, it offered the possibility of mobility to the 'new world' of the West; for countries like Australia that accepted them, it marked the beginning of a radical reimagining of its identity as an immigrant nation. For the next few decades, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Myth of the Strong Leader

    Political Leadership in the Modern Age

    by Archie Brown ...
    From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our ... Read more

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  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

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  • The Fear and the Freedom

    How the Second World War Changed Us

    by Keith Lowe ...
    The international bestselling author of Savage Continent examines how the world has been transformed by World War II.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of WWII ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Socialism

    by Kristian Niemietz ...
    Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon ... Read more

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  • Concentration Camps

    A Short History

    by Dan Stone ...
    Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several decades before the Third Reich, in the Philippines and in the Boer War, and they have been used again ... Read more

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  • "The Saddest Ship Afloat"

    The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis

    by Allison Lawlor ...
    Series series Stories of Our Past
    A true story of hundreds of Jewish refugees and the sea journey they hoped would save them.On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake, and after several ... Read more

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