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Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United Statesーincludin……続きを見る

During the period from 1808 to 1826, the Spanish empire was convulsed by wars throughout its dominions in Iberia and the Americas. The conflicts began in Spain, where Napoleon’s invasion triggered a……続きを見る

This Timeless classic, commemorating the settlement of the English at Jamestown over four hundred years ago. Under God's blessing, we are not only at peace with the entire world, but are bound by ti……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS General Background The Trinidad Bay Landfall Theory The Arguments for the Bodega Bay or Drake's Bay Landfall……続きを見る

"The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions - but also its virtues - irrepressibly bubbl……続きを見る

To be sure, Oklahoma is a land of contrasts. Within the state one can find red necks and blue bloods, pickups and polo ponies, beer joints and country clubs, fiery preachers and pagans, rodeo and b……続きを見る

One hundred years ago a great Canadian Sir Wilfrid Laurier predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's pla……続きを見る

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a historyーin short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas K……続きを見る

LIMITED TIME OFFER The Call to Arms is the first of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved - War of 1812. Each book in this battlefield-based chronicle combines the best of modern historical……続きを見る

In this compelling block-buster guide discover hard-hitting facts about American History, The 22nd Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Boston Tea Party, The Civil War, The Cold War, The Declaration ……続きを見る

Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as ……続きを見る

DEATH IN THE CANYON is the first book written by Mike Stotter writing as Jim A Nelson. SYNOPSIS In Montana, Big Sky Country, the threat of a ranch war over a new breed of cattle hangs over The……続きを見る

On June 18th, 1812, the United States of America declared war on Great Britain and looked to conquering Canada as the first military objective of the war. Adapted by the author himself from the bes……続きを見る

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1898 edition by Harper & Brothers, New York and London. A narrative of the expedition taken by Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt from Alaska to Siberia throughout the……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. The Discoverers of the Upper Mississippi II. Bearers of the Calumet III.The Man with the Copper Hand IV. The Undespairi……続きを見る

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and desc……続きを見る

The Geography of the Book of Mormon by E. Cecil McGavin and Willard W. Bean (& Wayne N. May) is an incisive study of the geographical locations of the three colonies that came to America in an……続きを見る

In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the na……続きを見る

Hefting a newspaper bag, the paperboy trimmed playtime with his daily routine. But routines rupture. Undeterred by dangers and disasters, rascals guide the reader along paper routes sharing their ad……続きを見る

**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and ……続きを見る

Views of early twentieth-century New York with accompanying text for the city buff and postcard collector alike. 続きを見る

Our forefathers gathered together to found this great nation, and lead us out of a most turbulent time. Their basic beliefs still hold true today: We the people have the right to life, liberty and t……続きを見る

As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives ……続きを見る

Dans cet ouvrage illustré de cartes et gravures anciennes, nous suivons avec le commandant Charcot, le parcours de ce marin et cartographe italien, convaincu qu’il existe des routes maritimes encore……続きを見る

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Index CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. Pre-historic Man in the Northwest ー The Red Race ー FirstDiscoveries in New France, CHAPTER I. Events Lead……続きを見る

CONTENTS FOREWORD I ENDURANCE AND ADVENTURE: THE VOYAGE AND LANDING II COMMUNAL AND FAMILY LIFE IN PLYMOUTH 1621-1623 III MATRONS AND MAIDENS WHO CAME IN “THE MAYFLOWER” IV COMPANIONS WHO ARRIVED IN……続きを見る

The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science is older than the university itself. Chartered in 1827 as King’s College, it officially opened in 1843 with four professors and twenty-seven s……続きを見る

Forty Years before Fremont made his expedition to the Pacific,  Sylvester Pattie and his son set off trapping up the Missouri River. They made their way through Santa Fe and the Southwest to t……続きを見る

LIMITED TIME OFFER In his second of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved -- War of 1812, author Richard Feltoe continues a battlefield chronicle that combines the best of modern historical……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. THE APPROACHES TO AMERICA CHAPTER II. THE FORM OF THE CONTINENT CHAPTER III. THE GEOGRAPHIC PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA CH……続きを見る