History

The Aroostook War of 1839

by Gary Campbell

A little-known episode in North America's history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 1793 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War...

The History of Montréal

by Paul-André Linteau & Peter McCambridge

Professor Paul-André Linteau tells the fascinating story of Montreal from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century, from the Iroquoian community of Hochelaga to the bustling economic metropolis that Montreal...

The Complete Works of Chaucer In Middle English

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English:

The Canterbury Tales

The Book of the Duchess

The House of Fame

Anelida and Arcite

The Parliament of Fowls

Boece

Troilus...

The Essential Pirate Anthology

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books about pirates:

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

The Madman and the Pirate- R.M. Ballantyne

Blackbeard Or, The Pirate of Roanoke.- B. Barker...

The Stolen Election

by Lloyd Robinson

A screamingly close presidential election. Allegations of fraud. Democrats and republicans, North and South, black and white--all at loggerheads.

With each passing day, the conflict becomes more complex. Hard-eyed...

Tales of Canyonlands Cowboys

by Richard Negri

Richard Negri interviews cattlemen and women about ranching in the rugged canyonlands region of southeastern Utah. Personal stories and anecdotes from the colorful characters who ground out a hard living on...

Shaman's Dream: The Modoc War

by Lu Mattson

Shaman's Dream : the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border. The book – a kaleidoscope of...

Recollections of Past Days

by Sandra Ailey Petree

For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important,...

Along Navajo Trails

by Will Evans

Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more...

A third approach to history

by Francesco Cesare Casùla

The narration of humankind’s past, that is to say its history, has up to now been done using the extrinsic method of geographic territorial reference and temporal chronological and local topical reference,...

Uranium Frenzy

by Raye Ringholz

Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated...

Murder: Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada

by Edward Butts

In Murder, the keenly researched chapters tell the stories behind some of Canadas most fascinating murder cases, from colonial times to the 20th century, and from the Atlantic provinces to the West Coast and...

The Desperate Ones: Forgotten Canadian Outlaws

by Edward Butts

Ed Butts recounts the intriguing stories of some of Canada's most desperate criminals whose stories have been all but forgotten - until now!

Came Men on Horses

by Stan Hoig

"Hoig tells this story with a sharp eye for human details--sometimes gruesome but nonetheless compelling details--that bring Coronado, Oñate, and other Spanish soldiers and priests alive in ways that I have...

The Italian Military Governorship in South Tyrol and the Rise of Fascism

by Giuseppe Motta

The book analyses the period of the Italian military governorship in South Tyrol (Alto Adige) just after the armistice and the end of the first World War. During this period the region was put under the control...

Local Library, Global Passport: The Evolution of a Carnegie Library

by J. Patrick Boyer

This colourful story of one town's library provides material enough for a movie as it reveals universal patterns about love of reading and battles for books while librarians, politicians, architects, educators,...

Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From Outside to Inside the Circle

by Arlene Chan

In 1894 Toronto's Chinese population numbered 50. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve the second-largest visible minority in the city, with a population of half a million. With their many achievements,...

Dinéjí Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History

by Robert S. McPherson

"It is rare that an Anglo scholar could understand the in-depth meaning of the Navajo worldview and its implications. It is even rarer for him to interpret it in Western [narrative] form without losing meaning...

Atsumori

by Zeami Motokiyo

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrior of the Taira Clan Atsumori. The story of redention of the warrior Kumagai Jiro Naozane that killed the young...

A Better Place: Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

by Susan Smart

The notion that funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death is a beginning and not an end is highlighted in A Better Place. An understanding of these changing burial rites, many...