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The Tsar's Guard
For more than two hundred years, the Tsar's private and elite soldiers have been the core of order and stability in civilized Russia. The Imperial Life Guards were formed in 1690, and their reputation is legendary. In southern Ukraine in the 1850s, however, the historic canvas of decay and poisonous alliances are weakening traditional monarchies and governments. Political unrest abounds, and medieval processes are giving way to contemporary acts of insurrection, greed and disloyalty. Growing up in a small village, young Samuel Orloff is obsessed with learning everything he can about his father's secret past, the Imperial Life Guards, and their mission. Amid a sea of chaotic change, Samuel's ...
Imperial Legend
Alexander I, one of Russia’s greatest emperors, beloved of his subjects for his many liberalizing works and reforms domestically, and for his astounding—and unexpected—victory over the presumably invulnerable Napoleon Bonaparte, reigned from 1801 to late 1825. But despite his many glittering successes at home and abroad, his immense power and wealth, the tsar was throughout his life a troubled man. Caught up in the personal and political maelstrom between his domineering grandmother Catherine the Great and his highly neurotic and volatile father Paul I, Alexander came to the throne as a result of a coup mounted against his father in March 1801. Although not an active participant in the...
Edicts of a Man-God
Doukhobors, genocide, love, death, murder, gods, fiction, free ethnic recipes; Tolstoy rescues thousands condemned to die for obeying Peter but Pierre Berton says Peter Verigan is one of 125 most important Canadians!
The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies
Winner of the Canadian Rockies Award at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival, this comprehensive climber's guide and history of the 54 11,000-foot peaks in the Canadian Rockies celebrates in words and images these breathtaking summits and the wilderness settings over which they tower. This book uniquely captures and distills the lively and frequently forgotten accounts of the pioneering climbers and their various routes. Each entry provides a vivid description of the peak, an extensive history of the early ascents of it and a detailed description of moderate to intermediate routes, including access and approach information. Now extensively updated, the text is liberally illustrated with route and climbing photos, both contemporary and historical, and includes detailed area maps.
Un-Canadian
Un-Canadian: Prejudice and Discrimination Against Muslims in Canada is a provocative warning to Canadians that the values they cherish are being eroded through a pattern of political, legal and social prejudice directed towards Muslims in Canada since September 11, 2001. Featuring never-before-published interviews with key politicians and journalists, influential Muslim leaders and ordinary Canadians who have suddenly found themselves thrust into what might become a full-fledged culture war, this book sounds the alarm about our politicians, our commitment to the rule of law and the changing value of our citizenship. Spanning settings from dark prison cells in Guantanamo Bay and Syria to the gilded corridors of power on Parliament Hill, this book centres on fundamental notions of social cohesion and the value of Canadian citizenship—issues which continue to make headlines. Canadians who are worried about the direction our country is headed will consider this a must-read.
Britain and the Last Tsar
This reinterpretation of British foreign and defence policy before World War I argues that British policies were determined not by a fear of Wilhelmine Germany, but rather by a desire to protect British interests abroad, which were threatened more seriously in the long term by Russia.
Canada Geese and Apple Chatney
In this award-winning collection of stories, Sasenarine Persaud presents us once more with his unique vision of lives North American and Caribbean. Here are voices probing at differences which are and aren't; all threaded together by the ancestral India of the protagonists' imagination, the Caribbean of their childhood, the Toronto or New York of their recent years, presented in a style sipired by an ancient tradition in which storytellers move easily in and out of stories and time and history.
Revolvo and Other Canadian Tales
In this remarkably extravagant collection, the author of Ruin of Feathers takes on settings ranging from the Prairies to the north woods to the city (and characters ranging from humans to subhumans to wild animals), to cast sometimes a tender and at other times a grimly or wildly humourous - and always intensely original - eye at the vicissitudes of life in Canada. From magic realism to gothic to satire, Lundin displays a broad and evocative range of style. Of Ruin of Feathers: "... original and intense debut collection." - Books in Canada "There's that rare air of authenticity ... Lundin unveils a mythos that is as much Canadian as it is Central American. This book intorduces a strong new writer to Canada's literary cimmunity." - Clarke Blaise "These finely crafted stories mark an impressive debut from an original and talented writer." - Jack Hodgins
Tsar and Sultan
Tsar and Sultan offers a unique insight into Russian Orientalism as the intellectual force behind Russian-Ottoman encounters. Through war diaries and memoirs, accounts of captivity and diplomatic correspondences, Victor Taki's analysis of military documents demonstrates a crucial aspect of Russia's discovery of the Orient based on its rivalry with the Ottoman Empire. Narratives depicting the brutal realities of Russian-Turkish military conflicts influenced the Orientalisation of the Ottoman Empire. In turn, Russian identity was built as the counter-image to the demonised Turk. This book explains the significance of Russian Orientalism on Russian identity and national policies of westernisation. Students of both European and Middle East studies will appreciate Taki's unique approach to Russian-Turkish relations and their influence on Eurasian history.
Nicholas II, The Last Tsar
The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to his country, he was weak, sentimental, dogmatic and indecisive. Ironically he could have made an effective constitutional monarch, but these flaws rendered him fatally unsuited to be the sole ruler of a nation that was in the throes of painful modernisation. That he failed is not surprising, for many abler monarchs could not have succeeded. Rather to be wondered at is that he managed, for 23 years, to hold on to power despite th...
