A careful tracing of the movements of both the Union and Confederate armies which offers fascinating vignettes of daily life within the ranks. Looking at issues from horse fodder to critical military strategy, the author examines the...
History and geography
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Author:Sears, Stephen W.Summary: - Author:Marsh, John S., Hodgins, Bruce W.Summary:
This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks. Contributors include an impressive assembly of noted park experts ranging from academic authorities and government parks personnel...
- Author:Laroche, StephenSummary:
Changing the Game: A History of NHL Expansion celebrates an often-overlooked aspect of hockey history. The book provides comprehensive coverage of the NHL’s spread across the North American market in the 1920s along with the...
- Author:Waxman, SydellSummary:
When Emily Stowe was born in Ontario in 1831, every girl’s life followed a set pattern. Regardless of her personality, intelligence, capabilities or creativity, her future was limited to housework and childcare. Emily Stowe was...
- Author:Tuerff, KevinSummary:
A fully revised and updated paperback edition featuring over twenty colour photographs. When Kevin Tuerff and his partner boarded their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that a few hours later...
- Author:Piepenbring, Dan, O'Neill, TomSummary:
In 1999, when Tom O'Neill was assigned a piece by Premiere magazine about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, he was intrigued by the opportunity to revisit a hallmark of American pop culture. Through extensive...
- Author:Gottfriedson, GarrySummary:
Chaos Inside Thunderstorms draws the audience into the centre of the tumultuous political, socio/economical and historical reality of the First Nations experience in Canada today. It is poetic expression that examines leadership,...
- Author:Wohler, J. PatrickSummary:
Charles de Salaberry (1778-1829) was a brilliant military figure who played a vital role in the War of 1812. A French-Canadian, he attained both rank and honour in the British army. He was a hero of Chateauguay and instrumental in the...
- Author:Crile, GeorgeSummary:
The untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most...
- Author:LaFarge, AnnikSummary:
A modern take on a classical icon: this original, entertaining, well-researched book uses the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative...
- Author:Pitt-Brooke, David, Kennedy Jr., RobertSummary:
First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the Earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot...
- Author:Cheadle, WalterSummary:
Walter B. Cheadle’s diary tells his incredible story of travelling with Lord Milton, as they journeyed along the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862–63. A miraculously successful expedition, the men traversed the continent, making their...
- Author:Plokhy, SerhiiSummary:
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the...
- Author:Buerge, David M.Summary:
This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times-the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to...
- Author:Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Carr, EmilySummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to...
- Author:Elliott, LynneSummary:
Provides an overview of the types of games children played during the Middle Ages.
- Author:Price, NeilSummary:
A definitive new history of the Vikings The Viking Age -- between 750 and 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North...
- Author:Stainton, Shirley D.Summary:
A warm-hearted memoir of a childhood spent living in various mining towns in the Kootenays throughout the 1930s and '40s. When young Shirley Doris Hall and her family moved to BC's West Kootenay region in 1927, the area was a hub of...
- Author:Keay, JohnSummary:
Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and...
- Author:Armstrong-Reid, SusanSummary:
The Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) had a devastating impact on China’s population. Braving bandits and disease, the China Convoy – a Quaker-sponsored humanitarian unit – provided medical relief in the unoccupied territory of “Free China”...
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