North America category: 699 books
Murder Aboard
The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
“An utterly original and gripping story of murder on the high seas.”
— Sebastian Junger
From an author praised by the Wall Street Journal for his “eye for a good story” comes an account of Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, a tragedy that occurred on the high seas and one involving...
The Pendulum of War
The Fight for Upper Canada, January-August 1813
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
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In his second of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved -- War of 1812, author Richard Feltoe continues a battlefield chronicle that combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotes from original official documents and personal letters, bringing...
The Tide of War
The 1814 Invasions of Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Throughout 1812 and 1813, Upper Canada had been the principle target for a succession of American invasions and attacks. Fortunately they all had been repulsed, but at a high cost in lives and the devastation of property on both sides of the border. By the beginning of 1814, both sides were determined...
by John Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Montgomery’s Inn, on Dundas Street West in present-day Etobicoke. For twenty-five years, beginning in 1830, the hard-working...
by Jean-Paul Goffinon
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015
En même temps qu’ils inventaient le fédéralisme à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les Américains ont instauré une séparation radicale de l’Église et de l’État et une complète liberté de conscience, de culte et d’expression. On constate cependant que les thèmes religieux sont bien présents...
Stages of Engagement
U.S. Theatre and Performance 1898-1949
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Stages of Engagement is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nation’s history.
Joshua E. Polster applies key thematic...
by John Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Campbell House, 160 Queen Street West, at the northwest corner with University Avenue, where judge Sir William Campbell...
Arts and Science at Toronto
A History, 1827-1990
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science is older than the university itself. Chartered in 1827 as King’s College, it officially opened in 1843 with four professors and twenty-seven students. In this lively and engaging book, Robert Craig Brown vividly recounts the 150-year history...
by Agnes Christina Laut
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Literary Thoughts edition presents The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Agnes Christina Laut ------ "The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia" was written by Agnes Christina Laut (1871–1936), a Canadian journalist, novelist,...
Warming Up to the Cold War
Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by...
by Allen Penfield Beach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
A.P Beach's love of Lake Champlain and his desire to increase people's knowledge and understanding of its history and culture inspired him to write Lake Champlain: As Centuries Pass in 1959.
A.P. Beach was a man of vision and energy—and he had a passion for Lake Champlain. Like anyone...
Imagining Canada
A Century of Photographs Preserved By The New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Sophisticated and well-curated, this photographic tour through Canada's history documents the nation's evolution over more than a century, as seen through the lens of photographers from The New York Times. The book compiles more than 100 iconic, momentous and inspiring images of Canada and includes...
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures
Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution,...
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific
The Labors of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book traces the history of working people who helped established the foundation of the American empire in the Pacific from its origins after the American Revolution to its coming of age in the 1840s and 1850s. Beginning with the expeditions of the Columbia and the Lady Washington, Lampe argues...