Patrick: 6740 books
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
by Patrick BUISSON
Language: French
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 29, 2016
La comédie du pouvoir, la tragédie de la France.
Pourquoi, depuis quarante ans, la France traverse-t-elle une crise politique, sociale et morale sans précédent ? Comment sont advenus le règne de l'idéologie, le déni du réel, la trahison du peuple par les élites ? Et nous faut-il nous résigner...
In Defense of the Religious Right
Why Conservative Christians Are the Lifeblood of the Republican Party and Why That Terrifies the Democrats
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2006
Political consultant and commentator Patrick Hynes dispels common stereotypes and misapprehensions about the most powerful political constituency in the country while undertaking the most exhaustive effort yet to define what the Religious Right is, what its members believe, and why they are right.
Bill Clinton
New Gilded Age President
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: “There is no other period in the nation’s history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.” The era of...
Taming Cannibals
Race and the Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain...
Rule of Darkness
British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal...
Crisis in Costa Rica
The 1948 Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Costa Rican revolution of 1948 capped an extended period of social tension and political unrest. This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940–1948 that led to a successful armed uprising. A secondary and related theme is the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement...
by Patrick Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Named One of NPR's Best Books of 2017
In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis.
On the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden...
The Canadian Regime
An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Now in its sixth edition, The Canadian Regime continues to provide the most accessible introduction to the institutions, processes, and principles of the Canadian political system. The book's focus on the inner logic of parliamentary government explains the rationale for Canada's relatively complex...
Neither Peace nor Freedom
The Cultural Cold War in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era’s rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.
An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?
Challenges and Choices for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Forty years ago, as the United States became increasingly involved in Vietnam, questions were raised in Canada about the relationship between its foreign policy agenda and that of its southern neighbour. Now, with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is time to raise the same questions: does...
Direct Democracy in Canada
The History and Future of Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Direct Democracy in Canada: The History and Future of Referendums surveys Canada’s century-long record of plebiscites and referendums. J. Patrick Boyer analyzes the effects of the three national referendums and the development of a consensus. This companion volume to The People’s Mandate studies...
The Rise of Islamic State
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award
Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in...
An Irish Country Cottage
An Irish Country Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An Irish Country Cottage is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved New York Times and internationally bestselling Irish Country series.
The New Year brings challenges and changes to the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. The Christmas holidays have barely passed before a fire engulfs...