North America category: 699 books
Templar Sanctuaries in North America
Sacred Bloodlines and Secret Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Traces the movement of the Templars’ secret treasure across North America to where it still resides, protected by a sacred lineage of guardians
• Explains how the Templars found refuge with Native American tribes, intermarrying with the Natives to continue the Holy Bloodline and further...
Making North America
Trade, Security, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Much has been written about the trilateral relationship between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and the free trade agreements that this relationship has spawned. In Making North America, James Thompson uses the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and the North American Free Trade Agreement...
by Cameron B. Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains. Although these practices were...
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations...
by Alice Beck Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
North America Before the European Invasions tells the histories of North American peoples from first migrations in the Late Glacial Age, sixteen thousand years ago or more, to the European invasions following Columbus’s arrival. Contrary to invaders’ propaganda, North America was no wilderness,...
Fighting for America
The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics,...
by James W. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into...
The Eternal Frontier
An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World).
Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological...
by John G. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationship between native inhabitants and colonial settlers a defining characteristic of Acadia/Nova Scotia...
Indigenous Peoples of North America
A Concise Anthropological Overview
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Most books dealing with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of various culture areas which, while valuable, sometimes means that the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic...
The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston
North America and Lower Canada, 1796–1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Travel writing has a long history, the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel.Although most travel publications of the eighteenth century were written by men, those by women, perhaps most famously Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, were also widely read.
The Travel Journals of Henrietta...
Colonial North America and the Atlantic World
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women¿Amerindian, African, and European¿who together forged a new world.These compelling narratives address the major themes...
Vikings in North America
Pursuing the Myth of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
With VIKINGS IN NORTH AMERICA, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, renowned archaeologists and bestselling authors of America's Forgotten Past series, discuss the fascinating myths that compelled the first Norse explorers to brave the oceans to reach North American shores.
At the Publisher's...