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  • Hopeful Travellers

    Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West

    by David Gagan ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this exploration of the nature of social reality in a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Canadian farming community, Professor Gagan employs the techniques of historical demography to reconstruct the population of mid-Victorian Peel County – specifically the histories of those families who occupied the county between 1845 and 1875. The evidence will be familiar to anyone who has tried to trace ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Prophetic Anti-Gallic Letters

    Adam Thom and the Hidden Roots of The Dominion of Canada

    Series series Baraka Biblio
    The Anti-Gallic Letters by Adam Thom was published in 1836 based on Thom's editorials in Montreal Herald written under the pseudonym "Camillus" in the previous two years. They were never reprinted, despite their importance and above all for the people for whom Thom was the public voice. More than an anti-French, anti-Republican tract, The Anti-Gallic Letters are crucial to understanding how ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vikings of the Pacific

    by Agnes C. Laut ...
    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 Francis Drake, the English pirate on the coast of California, and in Staduchin and Deshneff and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Catholic Calumet

    Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America

    Series series Early American Studies
    In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who documented this exchange also reported with excitement how the Illinois ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Summary of Colin Woodard's American Nations

    Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first European subculture in the United States is found in the arid hills of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Spanish Americans have been living in this part of El Norte since 1595, and they remain fiercely protective of their heritage. #2 The Spanish received the largest bequest in human ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forts of New France in Northeast America 1600–1763

    Series Book 75 - Fortress
    'New France' consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America. This title takes a look at the lengthy chain of forts built by the French to guard the frontier in the American northeast, including Sorel, Chambly, St Jean, Carillon (Ticonderoga), Duquesne (Pittsburgh, PA), and Vincennes. These forts were of two types: the major stone forts, and other forts made of wood and earth, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Now's the Day and Now's the Hour

    by Carl Peterson ...
    This is a noteworthy contribution to the history of the Alamo, the people of Scotland and the powerful American folk music that evolved from the melding of the two. Carl Peterson writes in an easy, conversational manner based on thorough research about the forces that brought the Scots to the New World and shaped their contributions to the growth of the United States. A surprising number of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    Volume I

    Edited by David Flaherty ...
    Series Book 1 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law
    This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company law, the law and the economy, legal reform in Ontario, custody law, the law of master and servant, the law of nuisance, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Life and Labour in Newfoundland

    Based on Lectures delivered at the Memorial University of Newfoundland

    by Charles Fay ...
    Series series Heritage
    This study of Newfoundland is a brilliant combination of first-hand observation, and of research into fascinating source materials. Professor Fay made tours of Newfoundland and of Labrador and examined documentary material in London and the West Country. Both his observations and his source-material are fresh and stimulating, and he writes in his usual lively provocative style.Professor Fay ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • On the Constitutionality of a National Bank

    In 1791, The First Bank of the United States was a financial innovation proposed and supported by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. Establishment of the bank was part of a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power, along with a federal mint and excise taxes. Hamilton believed that a national bank was necessary to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad: Second Edition Revised and Enlarged

    by Dean K. Fick ...
    This e-book contains all of the text and graphics of the original printed edition.Along the south shore of Lake Erie about halfway between Toledo and Cleveland, there is a small peninsula of land that juts northeastward, interrupting the otherwise smooth contour of the coast. This land is called the Marblehead Peninsula.The Peninsula's land is quite fertile and has served several generations of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Snowden's Iron Works

    This book traces the history and technology of several Irons works in pre-colonial Maryland, starting with the Colony of Maryland. The collected information is the result of a long chain of research by tireless researchers in dingy colonial era archives, and in dismal swamps. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Histoire des explorations de l'Amérique

    La découverte de l’Amérique appartient à deux époques bien distinctes : la première, qui fut le produit accidentel des courses aventureuses des Scandinaves, n’offre qu’un fait historique sans conséquences, arraché à l’oubli par l’érudition ; la seconde, au contraire, résultat d’un sublime calcul, et accueillie avec enthousiasme par l’Europe civilisée, a changé la face du globe en exerçant sur tous ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • La reestructuración de Norteamérica a través del libre comercio

    del TLCAN al TMEC

    Las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos están experimentando su fase más contenciosa y crítica desde que entró en vigor el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) en 1994. Durante la campaña presidencial de 2016, el entonces candidato por el partido republicano Donald Trump calificó el TLCAN como el peor acuerdo comercial negociado por Estados Unidos en su historia y se ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Amateur Emigrant

    "The amateur emigrant", written by Robert Louis Stevenson between 1879 and 1880, is an account of the trip that the writer do ' from Scotland to California to visit his Californian future wife seriously ill. Stevenson went by ship from Glasgow and decided to travel third class, to see how he lived and moved the working class. The Scottish writer, in this account, he described his weeks in steerage ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brides from Bridewell

    Female Felons Sent to Colonial America

    Brides from Bridewell is the story of the female felons from England and France who were sent to Colonial America to serve their prison sentences.It sets forth the harsh, often inhuman, penal conditions then prevailing in those lands, and the fact that these thousands of feminine felons constituted one of the primary marital elements in the mothering of early America. Many women whose offenses ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Heritage of The South

    Series series Classics To Go
    A history of the introduction of slavery its establishment from colonial times and final effect upon the politics of the United States. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Black Wall Street: The Wealthy African American Community of the Early 20th Century

    While the Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst racially motivated carnages in U.S. history, and it is essential to bring awareness and proper respect to it and events like it, the massacre will not be the focus of this book. This project chooses to focus on the positive parts of the Greenwood District history and shine a light on the achievements and stories of early 20th century Black ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Las Vegas Then and Now

    by Su Kim Chung ...
    Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.‘Las Vegas Then and Now’ captures the city's evolution from a desert railroad outpost into the gambling and entertainment capital of the world. Pairing historical photographs of the town with specially commissioned views of the same scene today, this book provides the reader with an intriguing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beyond Blue Earth to the French Prairie Volume I

    A Historical Narrative

    Series Book 1 - Beyond Blue Earth to the French Prairie trilogy
    'Beyond Blue Earth to the French Prairie, Volume I' is more than a historical account - it's a riveting revival of unsung heroes, poignant tales, and pioneering spirits that painstakingly sculpted the America we inhabit today. This volume invites you on an odyssey through time, reconstructing the past in vivid, heartrending detail with every page turned.This meticulously woven narrative chronicles ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Geography of Blood

    Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

    •Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ellis Island Experience

    by Barry Nove ...
    The Ellis Island Experience offers insights and tips on the immigrant experience and shares how to document your ancestors' own story at Ellis Island - often without the need to leave the comforts of home.From passenger manifests and naturalization files, to available onlne resources, author and family history researcher, Barry Nove, also offers several tales he has based on what he has documented ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • North America

    (vol.2) - Story of USA

    The site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three special views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the seaboard as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed when Washington was founded that these three ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Arts and Science at Toronto

    A History, 1827-1990

    by Craig Brown ...
    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 students. In this lively and engaging book, Robert Craig Brown vividly recounts the 150-year history of the faculty’s staff, students, and achievements.Brown takes readers on a sweeping journey though ... Read more

    $54.99 USD