North America 10

Historian Gavin K. Watt offers a fresh interpretation of the 1775 Invasion of Canada. In 1775, Governor Guy Carleton returned to Canada after a four-year absence in England to discover that politica……続きを見る

Mexico City is one of the oldest cities in the new world, and its long history has endowed it with numerous legends. Many of fascinating legends are related in these pages, including: Legend of Don ……続きを見る

This collection of classic Jack London Klondyke stories includes the following titles: The God of His Fathers, The Great Interrogation, Which Make Men Remember and The Man with the Gash Jan, among o……続きを見る

The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or maritime part of New France from the western part, which ……続きを見る

Mid-winter medical evacuations from the Antarctic; determined and often tragic searches for lost people and planes; daring feats of aviation pioneers; amazing lifestyles of those who choose to live ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le Titanic en moins d’une heure ! Lorsque le Titanic quitte le port de Southampton, le 10 avril 1912, les passagers qu’il compte à son bord sont loin de……続きを見る

The insular character of Britain delayed the creation of professional police until the 19th century. This volume traces the course of British amateur policing until that time, at which point it deal……続きを見る

During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World……続きを見る

Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites’ theories of an “Indian mind” inexorably shaped by Indian languages pl……続きを見る

North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife……続きを見る

Spanning two centuries, from the early 1600s to the mid-1700s, Revisiting Anne Marie engages the reader in the history of a Family cut from European and Amerindian (Mi'kmaq) cloth, from the family's……続きを見る

Readers of Cajun By Any Other Name live the experience of Acadian ancestors whose lives were shattered by a forced expulsion from Nova Scotia in 1755 - from their exile in Maryland and re-emergence ……続きを見る

The United States Marine Corps is one of the most famous military units in the world. The Marine Corps: Three Centuries of Glory tells the story behind one of the most famous military units in the w……続きを見る

Joseph François Lafitau is acknowledged as one of history’s most significant and interesting figures in the field of ethnology. Regarded as one of the first modern ethnographies, Customs of the Ame……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

This new Seminar Study surveys the history of U.S. territorial expansion from the end of the American Revolution until 1860. The book explores the concept of 'manifest destiny' and asks why, if expa……続きを見る

American History through Hollywood Film offers a new perspective on major issues in American history from the 1770s to the end of the twentieth century and explores how they have been represented in……続きを見る

IL y a, sous un certain rapport, une visible amélioration dans la bonne ville de Manhattan  ; elle éclate dans son architecture. Quant à son accroissement, cela ne fait pas……続きを見る

An Empire of Regions is a refreshing interpretation of British American history that demonstrates how the thirteen British mainland colonies grew to function as self-governing entities in distinct r……続きを見る

ON a beaucoup parlé et beaucoup écrit dans les temps sur la question de savoir s’il était politique de réunir les vastes contrées de la Louisiane au territoire d&e……続きを見る

The Story of Dunbar: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood draws on interviews with more than 350 local residents, including recent arrivals, descendants of pioneer settlers and the aboriginal inhabit……続きを見る

The events of 9/11 shook the world. But how much do you really know about what happened that day? If your knowledge is based purely on what you've seen on the nightly news, prepare to have your mind……続きを見る

Nathan Bangs (May 2, 1778 – May 3, 1862) was an American Christiantheologian in the Methodist tradition. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, he received a limited education, taught school, and in 1799 w……続きを見る

One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes. From the earliest explorers on the……続きを見る

PARMI tous les romans dont la scène est sur mer, qui ont été publiés depuis vingt ans, nous n’en connaissons aucun dont les évolutions des flottes aient ét&……続きを見る

QUAND M. Effingham se fut déterminé à retourner en Amérique, il envoya ordre à son gérant de mettre sa maison de New-York en état de le recevoir. Il avait dessein d’y passer l’hiver, et d’aller à sa……続きを見る

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 analysi……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Ontario Since Confederation contains some of the most recent scholarship in the field of post-Confederation Ontario history. This comprehensive collection, the first of its kind to be published in a……続きを見る

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain……続きを見る