North America category: 699 books
by Mary S. Saxe
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
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The Province of Quebec covers an area of over one hundred thousand square miles, and is the largest province in all the Dominion of Canada. The latter country is sometimes called British North America, but this particular province is very French indeed....
by Jay H. Buckley, Brenden W. Rensink
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America but not only the lands that would eventually be incorporated into the Unites States it also includes the multiple North American frontiers explored by Spain, France,...
by Agnes C. Laut
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
At the very time the early explorers of New France were pressing from the east, westward, a tide of adventure had set across Siberia and the Pacific from the west, eastward. Cartier and Champlain of New France in the east have their counterparts and contemporaries on the Pacific coast of America in...
Before the Pioneers
Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“In this riveting account, Frank moves beyond stories of recent development to uncover the deep history of a place profoundly shaped by mound-builders, slaves, raiders, and traders. This book will change the way you think about Florida history.”—Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian...
The Witch Hunts
A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts?...
Smoke Signals
The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded...
by Rosemary Neering
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On May 15, 1859, an American settler on San Juan Island shot a pig belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company. This seemingly insignificant act was the spark that almost set aflame the strangest of many confrontations between Britain and the United States on the northwest coast of North America. On one...
El Norte
The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The Hispanic history of the U.S. has been traditionally under-acknowledged or marginalized; indeed, El Norte argues that the United States today owes ever more to its Hispanic heritage than to its Anglo or European past.
Covering more than 500 years, El Norte is a sweeping and dramatic single-volume...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The charter of Massachusetts Bay was one of the New Worlds first attempts to establish self-government in the English colonies of North America. In this case, the Massachusetts Bay Company, a joint-stock company resident in England, whose membership included merchants and landed gentry, received a charter...
by Jacob Abbot
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The aboriginal condition of the country, therefore, anterior to its occupation by white men, and the character and condition of the native tribes which then inhabited it, will be the subject of this volume.
Farming across Borders
A Transnational History of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution,...
The 10 Big Lies About America
Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”
In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten...
by Russell M. Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the northern, middle, and southern British American colonies as well as British Caribbean colonies.
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by Elia Kazan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Elia Kazan, ethnic Greek but Turkish by birth, tells the story of the struggles of his uncle, Stavros Topouzoglou, in emigrating to America. In the 1890's, the young, kind-hearted but naive Stavros lives in Anatolia, where the Greek and Armenian minorities are repressed by the Turks, often through...