North America category: 699 books
by Janis I. Soucie
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In 1801, the eastern shore of Lake Ontario was full of green fields and trees until one man, a New York City lawyer by the name of Augustus Sackett, visited the area and changed the landscape forever. The lush green fields morphed into saw mills allowing the building of houses and storefronts. Families...
The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures
Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This remarkable era, known as the Transitional period, saw the advent of broad-bladed bifaces, cache blades, ceramics, steatite bowls, and sustained trade, among...
In Defence of Canada Volume II
Appeasement and Rearmament
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1965
In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964). Like Volume I, Volume II rejects as outmoded and misleading the traditional division of national security policy into two compartments,...
The Art of the Possible
Government and Foreign Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
This study, admirable in the logic of its organization and in the freshness of its style, provides an absorbing account of historical developments and current practices in the making of Canada's foreign policy. It analyses carefully and vividly the way in which the prime minister and members of his...
Before and After the State
Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The evolution of the Canada–US borderland in the Pacific Northwest included the wholesale transformation of social organization and individual identities together with the redefinition and application of public power. Before and After the State examines the impact of those changes across a region...
The Centennial Cure
Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia during Canada's 1967 Centennial Celebrations
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In The Centennial Cure, the second volume in the Studies in Atlantic Canada History series, Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton critically examines the intersection of state policy, cultural development, and commemoration in Nova Scotia during Canada’s centennial celebrations.
Beaton’s engaging and...
by NiNi Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
During the Civil War, St. Louis was under martial law. The city was divided to the core. A Most Unsettled State conveys this precarious dynamic through the pens of those who experienced it. Author NiNi Harris collects memoirs, letters, sermons, and accounts that reveal a critical time in a volatile...
by Mark Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
American snipers have gained increased popularity after the production of the movie American Sniper based on the life of Chris Kyle who served as a sharp shooter in Iraq consecutively for about four periods. Sharp shooter is the less common term to describe snipers whose role in history started in...
by David Farr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
The twenty years from 1867 to 1887 form a period of significant transition in the history of the British Empire. The present volume makes an intensive examination of the fashioning of imperial policy towards Canada in this period.
The American West and the World
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration,...
The Romance of the Colorado River
The Story of Its Discovery in 1540, with an Account of the Later Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A young adventurer’s firsthand account of a dangerous expedition into the Grand Canyon’s uncharted territories.
In 1871, seventeen-year-old Fred Dellenbaugh walked into a hotel room in Chicago, and with a You’ll do, Fred,” began a lifetime of danger-fraught exploration. Under the...
by William C. Kashatus
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
An important contribution to Lincoln scholarship, this thought-provoking work argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Religious Society of Friends faced a similar dilemma: how to achieve emancipation without extending the bloodshed and hardship of war. Organized chronologically so readers can see changes...
The Honorable President Trump Save Lawrence Yudowitz
Stop The American Assassination Team
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The attempts on my life have finally compelled me to ask for help from the president in public. The biggest problem is that circumstances like this one that I am writing about are difficult to believe by others, will you please take the chance to believe and to stop these people. I gave the specific...
by Harry Otty
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
SHORTY and BIG BOY HOGUE blazed across the West Coast fight scene of the 1930s and 40s like twin comets. Crossing gloves with former and future world champions and oft-avoided dangerous contenders, such as Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall, Eddie Booker, and other members of the infamous...