North America category: 699 books
by Emma Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
In the 1640s, eight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men became North America's first saints. Emma Anderson untangles the complexities of these seminal acts of violence and their ever-changing legacy across the...
Battlespace 1865
Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
For a period of about week in February 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian communities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat swept across the Nebraska panhandle, especially along the Platte River. The fighting that marked this event barely compares to the...
Songs Upon the Rivers
The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
THE NORTH AMERICAN NEW LEFT was a protest-oriented movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In its early, developmental stage New Left theories evolved primarily from the trial-and-error experiences of its most dynamic constituent groups and individuals. It was, essentially, a response by liberal activists...
by Hugh Bicheno
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet. Controversial and revisionist history of America’s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series – written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes. Most people view the American...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it...
by Harry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
We are all part of the one body, the “body of Christ.” Each follower of Christ is in a way, an organic cell that belongs to it while taking on different denominational or national characteristics. Every cell in the human body will carry the same DNA, and yet cells can be grouped together to form...
by S. Newton Dexter North
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This book presents the development of Wool and Textile industry in America. "Until the year 1840 the wool manufacture of the United States was exclusively confined to the woolen form. In that year the first delaines made in this country were manufactured at a mill in Ballardvale, Mass. All the...
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands**, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the...
A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812
New Brunswick and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With...
Barren Lands
An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North America Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought—and found—a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far north. From a bloody 18th-century trek across the Canadian tundra to the daunting natural forces facing protagonists Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson...
Industrial Sunset
The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination...
by William Bennett Munro
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
It was Samuel Champlain, a seaman of Brouage, who first secured for France and for Frenchmen a sure foothold in North America, and thus became the herald of Bourbon imperialism. After a youth spent at sea, Champlain engaged for some years in the armed conflicts with the Huguenots; then he returned to his old marine life once more.
A Land of Dreams
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880–1923
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on...