North America category: 699 books
Horses in Society
A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century....
Architecture, Media, and Memory
Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath – from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond.
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The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during Slavery and the Post-Civil War Era
There's a Bright Side Somewhere
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during Slavery and the Post-Civil War Era: There's a Bright Side Somewhere explores the use of the motif of hope within African American preaching during slavery (1803–1865) and the post-Civil War era (1865–1896). It discusses the presentation of...
The Boasians
Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today. The book begins...
Life in Ontario
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
This is Ontario's story, a collective biography of her people, a history of her development as a province. Illustrated by Adrian Dingle, this refreshing study, with its emphasis on the personal, offers an enduring portrait of a province.
Preserving South Street Seaport
The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Preserving South Street Seaport tells the fascinating story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan. Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century...
Monopolies and Patents
A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1947
Harold G. Fox is a native of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Law School of Osgoode Hall. For some years he practised patent and trade mark law as a member of the firm of Fetherstonhaugh & Fox. In the nineteen-twenties he was invited to take over the management of the...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The Transcendalist
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called American Transcendentalism to distinguish it from other uses of...
Outlaw Tales of Washington
True Stories Of The Evergreen State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Northwest.
by John R. Musick
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
The "Witch of Salem" is designed to cover twenty years in the history of the United States, or from the year 1680 to 1700, including all the principal features of this period. Charles Stevens of Salem, with Cora Waters, the daughter of an indented slave, whose father was captured at the...
Critical Focus
The Black and White Photographs of Harvey Wilson Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Estuary Press has published an eBook edition of Critical Focus: The Black and White Photographs of Harvey Wilson Richards. The eBook contains more than the photos and text of the original 1986 book. Now, Critical Focus is a gateway to well over 1000 new photos and 22 documentary films by Harvey Richards...
by Mary Stanard
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The year 1676 dawned upon troublous scenes in Virginia. Being a time when men were wont to see in every unusual manifestation of Nature the warning shadow cast ahead by some coming event, the colonists darkly reminded each other how the year past had been marked by three "Prodigies." The...
The Cowboy
His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the Development of the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Although the American cowboy has long been a favorite subject for novelists, filmmakers, and illustrators, too often the picture they paint bears little relation to reality. Philip Ashton Rollins, who lived in the West on and off between 1892 and 1924, set out to create a more accurate portrait of...
by William B Stephenson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
A description of the rugged life in Alaska at the turn of the twentieth century. 'If the idea that Alaska is the "land of ice and snow" is gradually disappearing another idea just as erroneous seems likely to take its place. This is that Alaska is the "land of gold." While it is...