North America category: 699 books

This FORBES family starts in 1100 Scotland and goes to Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Memphis, Tennessee.  They migrated to America in the 1740's.    Join me in discovering 26 generations on this Forbes family line.     This history is full of interesting Revolutionary War soldiers, a story of a scalping by Indians and real Scottish royalty who lived in real castles.     

Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded...

A metà tra il travelogue e il saggio di critica culturale e musicale, It still moves ci conduce in un tour alle radici della musica rurale americana, con soste in eccentrici motel e nei mitici luoghi che hanno ospitato storiche session di registrazione, alla ricerca delle sonorità di questa strana...

Alla Dina fu affidato il compito di eliminare gli oppositori interni al regime e, in seguito, la realizzazione di atti di terrorismo fuori dai confini nazionali. A capo dell’organizzazione venne nominato il colonnello Manuel Contreras Sepulvéda, definito da un rapporto della Cia come il più noto...

California, 1845, we are one step away from one of the bloodiest wars in American history of the ninth century ... Because of the independence struggle of the Texas and American expansion into the territories to the west, the Mexican government will be forced to break off diplomatic relations with...

Due eventi tragici, il massacro di Los Angeles del 1871 e il turpe traffico delle piccole schiave, che riassumono il difficile rapporto tra America e Cina negli anni tra il 1820 e il 1945. Un libro dalla critica arguta e intelligente che mette a nudo verità nascoste con uno stile semplice ed efficace. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

“Il saggio di Gianluca Ferrara è una straordinaria ricostruzione degli eventi che riguarda la storia degli Stati Uniti,dalla nascita fino ai nostri giorni, scritta con una assoluto rispetto dei fatti e con precisi riferimenti alle fonti. L'esordio è significativo: in nessun articolo della Costituzione...

Il était une fois une jeune prodige... Ainsi pourrait commencer cette histoire, à la manière des contes. Car une fée s’est assurément penchée sur le berceau d’Emma Lajeunesse pour que, au XIXe siècle, partant de l’austérité culturelle d’une campagne canadienne-française, elle se...

CONTENTS FOREWORD I ENDURANCE AND ADVENTURE: THE VOYAGE AND LANDING II COMMUNAL AND FAMILY LIFE IN PLYMOUTH 1621-1623 III MATRONS AND MAIDENS WHO CAME IN “THE MAYFLOWER” IV COMPANIONS WHO ARRIVED IN “THE FORTUNE” AND “THE ANN” INDEX TO PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT

**"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.” --George Packer, *The Atlantic * An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War,...

Книга, которую вы открыли, поможет изучить последовательность и логическое развитие взглядов и воззрений американского философа и писателя-романтика Генри Дэвида...

Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States shows a mature statesman at the height of his powers. But Lincoln's story starts long before that with a struggling country lawyer whose future was by no means assured. Browne's biography begins "in a rude cabin in a...

One hundred years ago a great Canadian Sir Wilfrid Laurier predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century dwelling instead in the long shadow of the United States. No more!...

Bookmasters is pleased to present you with a sample of Secret Mexico (México Secreto), the first in a series of translated works from best-selling author Francisco Martín Moreno, one of the most renowned novelists in Mexico.Step into the minds of three powerful leaders at the brink of the first World...