North America category: 699 books
by Francis Parkman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."
How Cities Won the West
Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these...
by Franz Boas, Clark Wissler
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
"In North America, as a whole, anthropologists usually recognize from ten to eleven more or less clearly defined culture areas, the approximate borders of which are indicated on the accompanying map. Yet, in most cases these divisions are not absolute, but relative, for rarely can a group of...
Transforming the Landscape
Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus...
Borderline Crime
Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and refugees from foreign territory.
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Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
A Historical Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Alcohol and drugs play a significant role in society, regardless of socioeconomic class. This encyclopedia looks at the history of all drugs in North America, including alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, cannabis, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and even chocolate and caffeinated drinks.
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
by Reginald C. Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This sweeping study surveys nearly a century of diverse American views on the relationship between the United States and the Canadian provinces, filling out a neglected chapter in the history of aggressive U.S. expansionism. Until the mid-nineteenth century, many believed that Canada would ultimately...
Bonds of Alliance
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the...
THIS LAND
Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Having spent a lifetime searching for Book of Mormon lands in some 250 ruins throughout Mexico and Central and South America, I am intrigued to return to Cumorah where it all ended. May and Goble have compiled fascinating arguments for those lands being in North-east America, complete...
The United States mutsogoleli wadziko ndi Government
The United States Presidents and Government In Chichewa
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The United States mutsogoleli wadziko ndi Government cholinga chake ndi kudzaza maganizo anu ndi yosavuta mbiri nzeru ndi kuthandiza aliyense chidwi American History ndi kuphunzira za boma lathu. Mwathu Pulezidenti wasiya wake amaonekera pa mbiri ya United States, pa miyoyo ya American anthu ndi...
Staking Claims to a Continent
John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, Davis in June 1808 and Lincoln the following February. John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in January 1815. All were...
More of a Man
Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed...
Two Worlds: Second Edition (Vol. 1)
Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects and 60s Scoop
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
SECOND EDITION 2017
Tragic, true, heartbreaking, astonishing... those words have been used to describe the anthology Two Worlds, the first book to expose in first-person detail the adoption practices that have been going on for years under the guise of caring for destitute Indigenous children...