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  • The Colonial Office and Canada 1867-1887

    af David Farr ...
    Serier serie Heritage
    The twenty years from 1867 to 1887 form a period of significant transition in the history of the British Empire. The present volume makes an intensive examination of the fashioning of imperial policy towards Canada in this period. ... Læs mere

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    The Making of Canada

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  • Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV

    Classic work of history. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met ... Læs mere

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  • A Time Such as There Never Was Before

    Canada After the Great War

    af Alan Bowker ...
    Ottawa Book Award 2015 — ShortlistedBetween 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”The war ... Læs mere

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  • Smoke Signals

    The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry

    When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause cancer.Smoke Signals follows tobacco from its origins in ... Læs mere

    70,66 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Great Canadian Battles

    Heroism and Courage Through the Years

    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), Great Canadian Battles features conflicts in Canada and abroad.Author Edward Humphreys analyses the ... Læs mere

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  • Warming Up to the Cold War

    Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea

    When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by the powerful influence of American media and culture, demanded a more vigorous response. Warming up ... Læs mere

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  • Adventurers Of The Far North (Illustrated)

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  • The Promised Land

    History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond

    Serier serie African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
    Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and ... Læs mere

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