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Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considera……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 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

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid ……続きを見る

Esta narrativa es la más interesante y fácil de leer de todas las "cartas de Indias" por ser la más extraña e irónica. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca pensó viajar a América como muchos héroes antes de é……続きを見る

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world econom……続きを見る

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 compel……続きを見る

In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provi……続きを見る

Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler’s execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of Europe……続きを見る

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 th……続きを見る

This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistica……続きを見る

Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the……続きを見る

*Includes over 25 pictures of both civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya and Aztecs, from language to religion. *Comprehensively covers the civiliz……続きを見る

*Includes over 50 pictures of the civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya, Inca and Aztecs, from language to diet. *Comprehensively covers the civili……続きを見る

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado was born to an affluent family in Salamanca Spain in 1510. Coronado is most famous for his expedition to find the Seven Cities of Gold, starting in 1540. He explored mu……続きを見る

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-……続きを見る

*Includes over 20 pictures of Aztec art, ruins, and more.*Describes daily life for the Aztecs, including their infamous human sacrifice rituals.*Includes a Table of Contents for 7 chapters on differ……続きを見る

In hindsight, Portugal seems like an unlikely instigator of the Age of Exploration. The relatively young nation had only gained its independence in the 12th century, and the Black Plague decimated t……続きを見る

American snipers have gained increased popularity after the production of the movie American Sniper based on the life of Chris Kyle who served as a sharp shooter in Iraq consecutively for about four……続きを見る