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  • Last of the Great Scouts (Illustrated)

    The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody

    Series series Western Cowboy Classics 56
    William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Canada before the family again moved to the Kansas Territory.Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JFK Assassination - What They Told Me

    "JFK Assassination - What They Told Me" unveils a treasury of knowledge crafted by William Holiday, a dedicated educator with a passion for unraveling the truths behind the JFK assassination. Within these pages lie an extensive compendium of photographs, film segments, interviews, recordings, and documents, offering readers a journey through the event's multifaceted dimensions. A career educator, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Union Soldier in Savannah and the Carolinas

    A Love and Valor Chapter

    "A Union Soldier in Savannah and the Carolinas: A Love and Valor Chapter" offers a captivating look into life during the American Civil War. Both personal and meticulously researched, this one-of-a-kind book offers profound insight into daily life during one of the most difficult moments of American history. This is a must-read for historians and all who are looking to get a rare glimpse into some ... Read more

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  • 1927. O vară care a schimbat lumea

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Series series Historia
    În vara anului 1927, America avea o bursă prosperă, un președinte care lucra doar patru ore pe zi (și dormea cam tot restul timpului), un sculptor pe jumătate nebun ce plănuia să cioplească patru capete gigantice în stânca inaccesibilului munte Rushmore, o revărsare devastatoare a apelor fluviului Mississippi și un tânăr aviator necunoscut pe nume Charles Lindbergh, care urma să devină cel mai ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Cherokee Warriors

    by Philip Steele ...
    A history of two Cherokee men and the personal hardships they faced against the US government in the nineteenth century.The expanding American frontier in the late 1800s created a battleground on which white and Indian cultures inevitably clashed. Slowly and inexorably the Native Americans were pushed from their land and stripped of their birthright.This engrossing volume documents the lives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mardi Gras Indians

    by Michael Smith ...
    A sociological study of the African American carnival revelers in New Orleans who dress in Native American-influenced costumes.One of the most dazzling elements of the Mardi Gras celebrations, the Mardi Gras Indians receive the attention and respect of carnival-goers for their elaborately beaded costumes and entertaining dances. But what few realize about the groups is that the parading is more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We the People

    by Leo Huberman ...
    Series Book 34 - Monthly Review Press Classic Titles
    A history of labour and the labour movement in the USA, originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Here They Come! - ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Early Life in Upper Canada

    by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally published in 1933, is by far the finest history yet compiled, and it is now being reprinted in order ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Select Documents in Canadian Economic History 1783-1885

    Edited by Arthur Lower, Harold A. Innis ...
    Series series Heritage
    This second volume of economic documents resumes the story of the development of Canada as told by contemporary sources. Newspaper accounts of economic forces and factors, contemporary writings by statesmen and business men, poems depicting current situations, official documents—all have been included. The volume divides the period into two eras, 1783-1850 and 1850-85. The basis of classification ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Canadian Agricultural Policy

    The Historical Pattern

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always been secondary in shaping agricultural policy. Government attitudes have been influenced less by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • History of Agriculture in Ontario 1613-1880

    by Robert Jones ...
    Series series Heritage
    This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Monopolies and Patents

    A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly

    by Harold G. Fox ...
    Series series Heritage
    Harold G. Fox is a native of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Law School of Osgoode Hall. For some years he practised patent and trade mark law as a member of the firm of Fetherstonhaugh & Fox. In the nineteen-twenties he was invited to take over the management of the Canadian zipper industry and, since that time, has devoted his main energies to the development of that ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Church and Sect in Canada

    Third Edition

    by S.D. Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    The need for a third printing of Church and Sect in Canada reflects the continuing interest in this pioneer study of the development of religious organization in Canadian society. It is one of three studies by Professor Clark; the other two, The Social Development of Canada and Movements of Political Protest in Canada show how the opening up of new areas of development in Canadian society led to ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Constitutional Amendment in Canada

    Series series Heritage
    On one of the most important and controversial matters in Canada—the drafting of an amending clause to the British North America Act. A forceful, lucid discussion of past amendments, conflicting views, and a possible solution. This book won the Grand Prize of the Province of Quebec for Moral and Political Science in 1950. Canadian Government Series. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • University College

    A Portrait, 1853-1953

    Edited by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    For a century University College has had a profound and continuous influence on the cultural development of Canada. The authors of this volume show us University College as a political and educational institution; as a physical structure that has aroused admiration and scholarly curiosity; as the home of a long line of great teachers and scholars, and of a student body diverse in its origins and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sir Edmund Head

    A Scholarly Governor

    by Donald Kerr ...
    Series series Heritage
    A century ago, in 1854, Sir Edmund Head became governor general of Canada. His earlier career as Oxford don, chief Poor Law commissioner during the "hungry forties," and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, had prepared him to succeed Lord Elgin in this senior post in the British colonial service. Combining the outlook and training of a scholar with a long administrative experience in difficult ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Colonial Office and Canada 1867-1887

    by David Farr ...
    Series series 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. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Errand into the Wilderness

    by Perry Miller ...
    The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Baptists in Upper and Lower Canada before 1820

    Series series Heritage
    To the pioneer folk of Upper and Lower Canada—Loyalists, "late" Loyalists, and the hordes of land-seekers—living in what seemed like religious destitution, various American Baptist missionary associations in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York State sent missionary preachers in the decade after 1800. Numerous small churches were established, but the War of 1812 disturbed these efforts, and much ... Read more

    $23.99 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

  • Pioneer Public Service

    An Administrative History of the United Canadas, 1841-1867

    by John Hodgetts ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book makes a new approach to Canadian politics, from the administrative side. It provides, first, a description of the evolution and structure of the administrative machine which, with few fundamental changes, still serves the Canadian nation, and in the process it attempts to acknowledge and appraise the hitherto unsung contributions of the public servant to the welfare of a pioneer ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Land of Choice

    The Hungarians in Canada

    by John Kosa ...
    Series series Heritage
    Written by a Hungarian scholar who himself passed through the vicissitudes of migration and assimilation, this timely study of the movement of Hungarians into Canada has a special value. The author, a graduate of the University of Budapest, taught social history and sociology at the universities of Budapest and Szeged, and had already written considerably on the specific sociological problems he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Valley of the Trent

    Edited by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Trent system of lakes, rivers, and canals occupies a considerable part of the counties of Hastings, Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough, Haliburton, and Victoria, in the province of Ontario. This volume of documents, records, and early writings covers the discovery and settlement of the valley, development and decline of the lumber trade, the Trent Canal and community life, and is abundantly ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Indians of Quetico

    Series series Heritage
    A fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game, trees, and plants for their food, their clothing, and their dwellings, and they realized that it was in their best interest to protect these things, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD