History

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

Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the...

775 pages plus photos. Also 45 pages of Introduction plus Short Biographies of the Principle Characters.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth & Charles W. Sasser Hardcover Pocket BooksCategories: History MilitaryVietnam War

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

For six years, Helene Hanff held captive audiences all over the world with her monthly broadcasts on the BBC's Woman's Hour. In five-minute vignettes, she m...

A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great histori...

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 Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows And Mike Wallace Have Written An Epic As Vast And Varied As The City It Chronicles. Drawing On The Work Of Hundreds Of Scholars ...

Details the ideological, political and economic causes of the War of IndependenceCategories: History United StatesGeneral

Vintage softcover WWIICategories: History United StatesGeneral

A Superlative Study Of The Roots Of The Modern Fashion ShowCategories: HistoryWorld

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston i...

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...

With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "th...

Until its loss in World War II, Japan had not known failure in centuries of warfare. This record of the conflict goes beyond mere description to illuminate ...

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In this #1 New York Times Bestseller, the iconic a...

When Hitler’s government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatter...

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

A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of Canada's best sports writers.Canadian hockey is approaching a state of crisis. It's become more ...

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 ...

Linda Benson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

A clear, engaging description of the six most prevalent models of worship in North American churches, presented by advocates for each position. The contrib...

John Brown is a man of many legacies, from hero, freedom fighter, and martyr, to liar, fanatic, and "the father of American terrorism." Some have said that ...

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...

The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of women’s role and place in weste...

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...

To truly heal is to "make whole" on all levels, in contrast to "treating" which is limited and short-sighted, as Hawkins has emphasized in his best-selling ...

Tom Harpur. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [269]-271) And Index.Categories: History World ReligiousChristianity

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting...both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the powe...

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how t...

To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom—the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries—is impossible. Still, before...

Ecclesiastical Empire depicts the reign of the Roman system throughout the Middle Ages. Details are given which reveal a history that accurately and precise...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

Father To The Fatherless Tells The True Story Of A Man Who Makes A Decision To Sell Everything He Has To Help The Poor. It's A Decision That Goes So Counter...

The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by emp...

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...

Describes The Partnership Of Da Vinci And Machiavelli On The Failed Project To Create A Series Of Canals Which Would Have Made The Arno River Navigable From...

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel night Is Elie Wiesel’s Masterpiece, A Candid, Horrific, And Deeply Poignant Autobiographical Account ...

written For Young Adult Readers, This Biography Of Einstein Includes Basic Summaries Of Some Of His Most Famous Scientific Theories Along With The Story Of...

Sharp full-color photographs, a simple and concise text, and a newspaper-style format report the major events and people of the century, from world wars to ...

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...

A Dynamic Multivoiced Single-volume History Of Black People In America, Edited By Ibram X. Kendi And Keisha Blain.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences...

Reding's Account Of The Ten Months [in 1995] He Spent In Middle Cisnes, Patagonia, Is A Riveting, Novelistic Exploration Of The Longing For Change By A Peop...

Takeyuki Tsuda. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Sociology Race RelationsDiscrimination & Racism...

This book examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear in films, on television and ...