Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting...
History and geography
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Author:Sewell, BillSummary: - Author:Wattie, ChrisSummary:
In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan's Panjwayi region surprised an unexpectedly large force of Taliban fighters. The soldiers of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry had...
- Author:Roberts, JoSummary:
2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize — Nonfiction Runner Up The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel’s future possibilities for peace. 1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust...
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Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally...
- Author:Leidner, GordonSummary:
An inspiring collection of stories from ordinary Americans who sought Lincoln's help during the Civil War. What was it like to meet our 16th President? Was he really as kind and honest as we perceive him to be today? This astonishing...
- Author:Nesbitt, BruceSummary:
This collection presents all of Earle Birney’s known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney’s letters and literary writings...
- Author:Hill, DavidSummary:
From the bestselling author of 1788. The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds. Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in...
- Author:Nicks, John, Nicks, DenverSummary:
In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a confession. This book tells the story...
- Author:Betts, Gregory, Hjartarson, Paul, Smitka, Kristine, Surette, Leon, Lamberti, Elena, Hammond, Adam, Welch, Adam, Tiessen, Paul, Monk, Philip, Irvine, Dean, Morra, Linda, Wershler, DarrenSummary:
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of...
- Author:Duncan, DaytonSummary:
The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century-based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on...
- Author:Parsons, Robert C.Summary:
Courage at Sea: Newfoundland Sailors in the Great War is a collection of more than forty World War I stories involving the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve and the Newfoundland merchant seamen who delivered goods to Europe in...
- Author:Redfern, NicholasSummary:
More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn't be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The...
- Author:Eustace, NicoleSummary:
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though...
- Author:Ryder, GraceSummary:
From history to Hollywood, few figures have had the lasting impact as the American cowboy. Packed with profiles of the most famous cowboys (and girls), useful cowboy words and phrases and quotes from the legends like John Wayne, Will...
- Author:Dolan, Samuel K.Summary:
Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper...
- Author:Grossi, CraigSummary:
As part of an elite team of Marines, Craig Grossi was sent on his most dangerous assignment to the Sangin District of Afghanistan. He expected to face harsh conditions and violence from Taliban fighters. What he didn't expect was...
- Author:Dann, MoiraSummary:
Craigdarroch Castle, built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir for his wife, Joan, and their family, was completed in 1890. Following Joan's death, the castle was put up for sale in 1908, and later housed a military hospital and the...
- Author:Fullenkamp, ConnelSummary:
Professor Connel Fullenkamp of Duke University guides you through four centuries of economic disasters--from tulip mania in the 1600s to the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Each of his 24 lectures covers a notable incident of financial...
- Author:Doolittle, RobynSummary:
Reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video of Mayor Rob Ford apparently smoking crack cocaine and report on it in May 2013. Doolittle presents a portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family, and a city...
- Author:McCullough, ColinSummary:
Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past illuminates how Canada’s participation in the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 was used as a symbol of national identity – in Quebec and the rest of the country. Delving into...
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