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Since 1999, a number of documents relating to the CIA’s activities in Guatemala have been declassified, and a truth and reconciliation process has unearth...

A groundbreaking history of racism Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that the...

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who rais...

Product Description In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto R...

Part I Down The Colorado: Letters From The Wilderness Post -- Selection 1 Party Has Reached This Point In Safety 39 -- Selection 2 Wreck Of The No-name 41 -...

Mike Filey. Includes Index.Categories: Travel CanadaGeneral

I came across this blog while reading Forbes online and enjoyed the first class writing. It reminded me of, and was in the same big league as “A year in P...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

Published to glowing reviews, this riveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Cas...

In eight chapters and with over 225 photographs and original illustrations, this book provides a fascinating and colourful view of the history and tradition...

Through three centuries of development, the history of the Canadian economy reflects the shifting roles of natural resources, industrializations, and inter...

the Little Immigrants Is A Tale Of Compassion And Courage And A Vivid Account Of A Deep And Moving Part Of Canadian Heritage. In The Early Years After Confe...

A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, this blockbuster adventure takes listeners on a gripping journey into the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove...

This celebration of historic--and present-day--Native American cultures includes information on the contemporary lives of more than 149 Indian groups, from ...

In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own ...

Explore The Vestiges Of The Hamlets And Villages That Have Been Swallowed Up By Toronto’s Relentless Growth. Over More Than Two Centuries, Toronto Has Bal...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeWinner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book PrizeWinner – 2023 High Plains...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months a...

100 Events that Shaped World History is a wonderful and insightful overview of the basic facts that have created the world as it is today. Interesting and f...

From the moment he was shot down to the final whistle, Jimmy James' one aim as a POW of the Germans was to escape.The movie, The Great Escape, describes his...

Peter C. Newman’s poison pen has lodged itself in the viscera of the Canadian elite. In Mavericks, he has selected his most evocative writing about those...

Terry Fox, the one-legged runner from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, made an indelible impression upon people across Canada and around the world. An out...

The truth is that John Rae solved the two great mysteries ofnineteenth-century Arctic exploration: during a single expedition in 1854, hediscovered both th...

Title: Cod( A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World) Binding: Paperback Author: MarkKurlansky Publisher: PenguinBooksCategories: Sports & Outdoor...

describes Christmas Traditions In Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, And Norway. publishers Weekly the On My Own Holidays Series Offers Explanatory ...

Now a New York Times bestseller We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal conn...

The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves ...

The product of five years’ investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National ...

The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of th...

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting...

Prologue: The Canadian Revolution -- Pt. I. The Canadian Revolution. 1. The Greening Of Our Discontent: Counting The Ways -- 2. God: Loss Of Faith -- 3. Kin...

Formerly the viceregal capital of Spain's vast South American empire, Lima is today a sprawling metropolis struggling to cope with a population of eight mil...

National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer."In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, best...

Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar M...

Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of Ancestral Puebloan buildings. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have b...

With the sudden Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined...

Drawing From Newly Released Archival Sources, Dimitry Anastakis Demonstrates That, For Canada's Automotive Policymakers, Continentalism Was A Form Of Econom...

North American cities of the late nineteenth century, grappling with the effects of industrial capitalism and urban growth, were subject to a succession of...

This Book Recounts The Many And Varied Transformations In The History Of Law In Canada In The Half Century After Confederation.Categories: Politics & So...

In Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers, Rafael Varón Gabai breaks fresh ground in his reconstruction of the Pizarros’ conquest as a new form of busi...

No matter where you enter the history of Canada – through exploration, politics, business, education or literature -- you find that the Scots and their d...

Whoever Gives us Bread is a lively people's history from the 1860s to the 1960s, as told by an award-winning historian. In the early 1860s, Italians began ...

The Challenge Of Rethinking History Education Is A Must Read For Anyone Looking For A Guide To Both The Theory And Practice Of What It Means To Teach Histor...

Toronto's Cabbagetown in the Depression...North America's largest Anglo-Saxon slum. Ken Tilling leaves school to face the bleak prospects of the dirty thirt...

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what ...

This Nonfiction Book Examines How We Can Foster Reconciliation With Indigenous People At Individual, Family, Community And National Levels--Categories: Poli...

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 Ca...

at The Bathroom Readers’ Institute, We Love All Things Canadian And Figure That Just Because We Weren’t Lucky Enough To Be Born In The Land Of The Norther...