Hannant Larry (42 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust-jacket. No notes or highlights. Very light shelf-wear. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 396 pages. Blue cloth cover with gold script on spine. The first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune, shedding light on the man, the artist and the revolutionary. Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", xiii + 396pp. Perfect bound book in blue cloth-covered boards. Jacket is protected in mylar and is in near fine condition. Book is well read, there is a slight lean to the spine but the binding remains sound. A sprinkling of light pencil strokes (not notes) throughout the book.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 60s and 70s. Drawing on archival material, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists arguing for a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book recognizes the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists-those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics-and leaves a set of questions, perhaps sobering ones, for contemporary activists.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Clean tightly bound copy. Unmarked pages. Secure boxed packaging! h2 Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 333 pp. Very light corner wear. ap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, Unread Copy, In A Fine Jacket. Inscribed By Author On The Title Page. Inscribed by Author(s).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: new.

Condition: New. pp. 412.

Condition: New. 1998. paperback. . . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 404 pages. 8.94x5.98x1.14 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. In-8. 462 pages. Documentation de qualité. Illustrations.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against Japanese invasion. This book sheds light on the man, the artist, and the revolutionary. It uncovers new historical material relating to several controversies surrounding Bethune. A remarkable document obtained from the Communist International Archives in Moscow, for instance, discusses why Bethune was sent home in disgrace from the Spanish Civil War. It refers to a mysterious Swedish woman, Kajsa von Rothman, who was Bethune's lover and who was believed by left-wing Spanish authorities to be politically suspect. This collection of Bethune's writings and art reveals that politics preoccupied him only during the last four years of his life. Earlier, his passionate nature found expression in medical and surgical innovation, as well as in painting, sketching, photography, writing - from poetry and short stories to letters, radio broadcasts, and plays - and public speaking. The Politics of Passion reveals the many sides of Bethune's identity, exploring not only the life of a revolutionary doctor, but of an intense and compassionate artist.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. 1998. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 412.

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 396pp, illus, VG+ (boards sl warped & soiled, sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8vo (medium). xiii, [3], 5-396 p.p. Illustrated. Light rubbing, scuffs to jacket covers. Small bruise to spine head. Very little rubbing to spine, edges. Interior clean, crisp. A fine copy in near fine jacket. The biography of Canadian medical pioneer and communist Norman Bethune, who gained notoriety during his time serving in the Spanish Civil War during the 1930s. This book looks at Bethune's life, art and writing.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback, ix + 330 pages, NOT ex-library. Vey good interior, clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Faint age-spotting on outer page edges (side & bottom); dusty marks on the outer corner of the lower edges. Firm binding, spine remains free of vertical creasing. -- A forceful, meticulously researched exposé of Canada's early experiments in state surveillance, revealing a system of security screening and fingerprint-based identification that predates the Cold War by decades. Challenging the dominant historical narrative that roots Canada's intelligence apparatus in the 1945 Gouzenko affair, Hannant rewinds the origins of mass loyalty testing to the First World War and interwar years, tracing a deep institutional suspicion toward dissenters, radicals, labour activists, and even ordinary citizens who simply deviated from expected norms. At the heart of Hannant's investigation is the RCMP's covert evolution from a traditional law enforcement body into a proto-intelligence agency - one which, by the WWII, had amassed an illegal and secretive archive of over two million fingerprint files. This mass collection of biometric data - conducted under the pretense of voluntariness - constituted a startling breach of civil liberties. Yet it operated with almost no public oversight and in a legal vacuum, driven by fear of communism, wartime anxiety, and an unrelenting pursuit of ideological conformity. Through ten tightly argued chapters, Hannant details how security screening expanded beyond military and federal employment to encompass wartime industry, the merchant marine, and even provincial cooperation. Chapters such as "Reds Under the Khaki" and "Gathering Information Regarding Communistic Chaps" delve into how the state rationalised surveillance and job discrimination on political grounds, often destroying livelihoods based on tenuous evidence. Equally damning is Hannant's portrait of the RCMP's unwillingness to coordinate with other government agencies - an institutional insularity that bred inefficiency even as it entrenched authoritarian practices. Drawing on declassified internal memos, personnel files, and the RCMP's own fears of acquiring a "Gestapo reputation," The Infernal Machine reveals a system built not on transparent justice, but on whispered allegations, gendered moral scrutiny, and racialised assumptions. The security net was not only vast - it was often arbitrary. For women, particularly, loyalty vetting was deeply entangled with sexual policing, while working-class Canadians found themselves disproportionately targeted for labour activism or minor infractions. Yet Hannant's work is not only a historical excavation - it is a cautionary parable about unchecked state power. His analysis of Canada's intelligence ties to Britain and, increasingly, the FBI in the United States shows how Canadian authorities gravitated toward more expansive and punitive models of surveillance even before McCarthyism set the tone for North American counter-subversion. His insight that the RCMP's focus on leftist threats led them to virtually ignore fascist and Nazi elements domestically is a chilling reminder of the political selectivity of intelligence services. This book is a landmark contribution. It excavates an under-acknowledged era of Canadian intelligence history, one in which rights and liberties were compromised not by external enemies, but by the state's own self-image and its fear of ideological difference. The Infernal Machine is a compelling, if unsettling, portrait of democratic fragility in wartime - and a necessary reference point for contemporary debates on surveillance, national security, and the politics of loyalty.…