North America category: 699 books
Prejudice and Pride
Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American...
by Carol A. Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
A Book for the Curious,
Amateur and Serious Genealogists
Do You Want To Know More
About the Past?
Ancestors are more than just a name and date and the data presented allows you a peek into your relative’s lives. This is the last in a series entitled THE WORLD OF YOUR...
Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents
Mapping the World through Primary Documents
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time.
• Collects primary source materials such as journal entries, book excerpts, and maps from various 19th-century...
The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1963
In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet quotes...
by Mark Bushnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
From the French and Indian War to the exposure of Maple Corner,
thirty-two events that shaped the Green Mountain State
by François-Xavier Garneau
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours est un ouvrage du poète et historien québécois François-Xavier Garneau (1809 – 1866). Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique.Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait...
A desordem mundial
O espectro da dominação: guerras por procuração, terror, caos e catástrofes humanitárias
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira – um dos grandes especialistas latino-americanos em análise histórica e geopolítica de crimes praticados pelo imperialismo ocidental, em particular o norte-americano, e de seus reflexos no Brasil – investiga como Estados Unidos, Rússia e países ricos da Europa...
The Darkest of Times
The Slavery Abolitionist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The examination of slavery and the rise of the abolitionist movement during the 1780s. Carter uses a historical examination and assessment that is aided through the use of Early American Newspapers, along with a historical examination, perspective and historiography to examine this time period in American History.
by Walter S. Tower, H. M. Kingery
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
"The project for a deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf has been dreamed about and discussed intermittently for half a century, but nothing definite ever came of it until a little over a year ago, when, from a conference held at St. Louis, there was born the permanent organization called...
Freshwater Heritage
A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 represents the culmination of a lifelong passion for sailing and for the history of sail as it applies to Canada. Author/sailor/boat builder Don Bamford takes us deep into the psyche of sailing as it applies to historical events...
Pennsylvania Histories
Two Hundred Years of Personalities and Events, 1750–1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book offers a consciously eclectic approach to the rich history of Pennsylvania in the period from 1740 to 1950. Combining original research with syntheses of relevant work by other historians, Pennsylvania Histories seeks to appeal to both professional historians and general readers by presenting...
by John A. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
This is a good summarization of the history of Francis Scott Key's poem.
Most Americans only know the first verse of our National Anthem, not the other three verses.
Jesse James
The Life, Times, and Treacherous Death of the Most Infamous Outlaw of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The first definitive biography of the notorious Wild West desperado; an illustrated, authentic reproduction of the rare 1882 edition.
There are few outlaws who were as iconic in the ruthless American West as Jesse James. A guerilla during the Civil War, he partnered with his brother, Frank,...
A Year of Indiana History Stories - Book 2
Hoosier History Chronicles, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
A Year of Indiana History Stories Book 2 includes three hundred and sixty-five stories of Indiana history. Hoosier history buffs will enjoy this journal of historic tales, some of which are obscure and little known. Others chronicle important benchmark historical Indiana events.