This is a highly praised study of race, racism, and cultural assumptions worldwide using the history of Chinese emmigration to Canada and the development of Vancouver's Chinatown as its base.

Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980 (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

History

Anderson, Kay J.

Americas

McGill Queens Univ

<p>Anderson charts the construction of Chinatown in the minds and streets of the white community of Vancouver over a hundred year period. She shows that Chinatown -- from the negative stereotyping of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to its current status as an "ethnic neighbourhood" -- has been stamped by changing European ideologies of race and the hegemonic policies those ideas have shaped. The very existence of the district is the result of a regime of cultural domination that continues to exist today. Anderson clearly rejects the concept of "race" as a means of distinguishing between groups of human beings. She points out that because the implicit acceptance of public beliefs about race affects the types of questions asked by researchers, the issue of the ontological status of race is as critical for commentators on society as it is for scientists studying human variation. Anderson applies this fresh approach toward the concept of race to a critical examination of popular, media, and academic treatments of the Chinatown in Vancouver. </p>

Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980 (Volume 110) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

McGill-Queen's University Press

<p>In the decades leading up to the French Revolution, the armed forces in Europe changed radically. Armies and navies became larger and more expensive and the role of the state in raising, organizing, and paying them grew enormously as the military entrepreneur disappeared. Increasing state control led to a gradual improvement in discipline, and plunder and wanton destruction declined. War, however, had a limited effect on economic progress and growth. In much of central and eastern Europe the harsh imperatives of the quest for military strength were supremely important in moulding society as a whole and giving it a distinctive character. War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime provides a detailed account of how the rise of nationalism and people's armies prepared the way for the dawning of a new age.</p>

War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime 1618-1789 (Volume 2) (War and European Society Series)

ANDERSON, M.S.

Anderson,Robert

Military

McGill-Queens University Press

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