This joint series by the Canadian Historical Association and the University of Toronto Press focuses on historical topics and issues of international significance and offers a comparative perspective. These short, inexpensive, well-written volumes are designed for use in the undergraduate history classroom.
Interrogating the costs and benefits of the game’s controversial path to global pre-eminence, Contested Fields shows how and why football matters in the modern world – as part of the social fabric and as a site of political power and resistance.
This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Australia.
Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.
An Introduction to the History of International Organizations
by David MacKenzie
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781442601826
Pub Date: November 2010
This short and well-written overview provides essential information on the history of international organizations (IOs), with particular focus on the League of Nations, the development of the United Nations, and the UN system.
In The Shock of War: Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945, Sean Kennedy shifts the reader's focus from the battlefields of the Second World War to the civilian experience.
