North America category: 699 books
by Ray John de Aragón
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Establishing New Mexico as a U.S. territory was anything but bloodless. The Mexican-American War brought ferocious battles, brutal sieges, guerrilla warfare and scorched earth tactics. More than three hundred Mexican and American forces were killed or wounded in a single battle near Santa Fe. During...
Camelot and Canada
Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts proclaimed at the University of New Brunswick that "Canada and the United States have carefully maintained the good fences that help make them good neighbours." He could not have foreseen that his presidency would be marked not just by some of the tensest...
Hired Hands
Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One, hired...
Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest: Mapping the World through Primary Documents
Mapping the World through Primary Documents
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Covering the adventures of coastal and ocean explorers who made key discoveries and landmark observations from northern California up the coastline to Alaska during the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, this anthology of primary source journal entries, book excerpts, maps, and drawings enables readers...
by Fred Kronen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Dr. Fred Kronen was a volunteer physician in Sandinista, Nicaragua, during the tumultuous years of 1987 to 1988. By this time, Nicaragua had already suffered years of dictatorship, revolution, rebirth, and then the massive effort by the Reagan administration to destroy the new Sandinista regime. Reagan’s...
by Miroslav Marinov
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Several books on Rob Ford have already been published. Though we should not judge their authors’ intentions, even a brief look at them tells us that they have been written from the point of the media and political elites that have little interest in assessing Ford’s work objectively and going beyond...
by Marc-André Cyr
Language: French
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Considéré dans le texte: La manifestation des étudiants de l'Université Sir George Williams. Perry Anderson. Rosie Douglas. Roland Michener. Le sabotage du centre informatique. La mémoire des vaincus.
De terugkeer van de wereld van Marco Polo
Oorlog, strategie en westerse belangen in de 21e eeuw
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 21, 2018
De gerenommeerde Amerikaanse politiek analist Robert D. Kaplan buigt zich in zestien scherpe en weldoordachte artikelen over de buitenlandse politiek van de Verenigde Staten in de laatste twintig jaar. Hij onderzoekt de rol van de VS in de globale politiek en door welke tijdloze principes en factoren...
De verovering van de Rockies
hoe haar geografie de rol van de Verenigde Staten in de wereld bepaalt
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 18, 2017
De verovering van de Rockies is een kort epos dat aan de hand van een intelligente en meeslepende beschrijving van het Amerikaanse landschap uiteenzet hoe het land een wereldmacht is geworden en hoe het zich in de chaotische wereld van nu zou moeten gedragen.
Als klein jongetje luisterde Robert...
by Henri Lorin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
« ... Vers le milieu du XVIIIe siècle, le Canada ne comptait encore qu’une population de 60 à 70 000 âmes, avec un petit nombre de villes ; l’admirable route du Saint-Laurent, chemin creux foré à travers les Laurentides, avait été la voie suivie par la colonisation française ; Québec,...
by Gérard Porcher
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Pour pouvoir parler de quelque chose, il est nécessaire de le connaître. C’est une phrase que j’ai entendu plusieurs fois tout au long de ma vie. Sauf dans certains cas, où en effet, il y a des gens qui parlent d’une affaire sans en savoir les détails. En règle générale, les gens sont...
Ever True
150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education institutions in the world. Its halls have been home to Nobel Prize- and World Food Prize-winning faculty,...
by James Eayrs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1971
James Eayrs is a keen and articulate observer of international politics. His incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession in Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy and Fate and Will in Foreign Policy provoked unflattering attention and attempts at rebuttal by...
It Was Always ME
Edward Edwards The Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Forget everything you thought you thought you knew about the most publicly covered murders of our time. The evidence leads to one man committing the most chilling and widely known murders that have captivated the public’s interest and caused terror throughout our communities including the Zodiac...