Rise to Greatness
3,317円 Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbrea...
The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foo...
2,515円 A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for its perilous Winter March through the wildernes...
The Mammoth Book of the West
421円 Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the...
Empire of the Summer Moon
2,122円 In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonis...
A Few Bloody Noses
1,192円 Liberty against oppression, right against wrong - a clear message has come down to us about the origins of the American War of Independence, one of the founding events of the modern world. As with so many legends, the truth is somewhat different. In this revealing account, Robert Harvey overturns...
The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - Ame...
421円 Hear the cannon roar at Valley Forge with George Washington, dance the night away at a Chicago Speakeasy during Prohibition, take a ringside seat for the gunfight at the OK Corral, ride Apollo 11 to the moon, hear Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, join with Harry S. Truman on the A-bo...
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous P...
164円 First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie "Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a Scot engaged in the Canadian fur trade, resolved, as he out it "to test the practicability of penetrating across the continent of America". In 1789 he followed a r...
The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln
661円 Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States shows a mature statesman at the height of his powers. But Lincoln's story starts long before that with a struggling country lawyer whose future was by no means assured. Browne's biography begins "in a rude cabin in a clea...
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN '...
202円 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 activis...
AMERICA IS CRAZY COOL!
0円 I call myself Q because I am a Star Trek Fan. No, I'm not a Trekker or Trekkie, just a fan. I don't have a copy of Spock Sings!, but enjoy the "Q" Character from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I like the way he is all powerful, all-knowing, sarcastic and always trying to help humans improve them...
Great Canadian Battles
150円 Wars, raids and rebellions have driven the history of Canada forward from the earliest days of New France, through the two world wars to the present day. Beginning with the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1609 and ending with the second Battle of Panjwaye in 2006 (part of the war in Afghanistan), Gre...
Cannibal – The language and history of TH...
200円 The combined focus of this series is, of course, the history of America and the history of American English. This first book, Cannibal (call it a prequel) sets the scene for European conquest of America – North and South – and reminds us of the race between Columbus and Cabot to reach the Orient,...
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