Connecting the Continents tells the story of the struggles and successes of a pioneer cable station whose elite group of operators added a new social class to the community. In the process, they reshaped life in Heart's Content, giving...
History and geography
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A narrative history of the conquest of Mexico offers contrasting studies of Hernán Cortés and the powerful Aztec king Montezuma, and discusses the complex civilization of the Aztecs and the military campaign that brought down the...
- Author:Wood, MichaelSummary:
The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the New World, and few...
- Author:Primack, Richard B., Wilson, John W.Summary:
Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics...
- Author:Wilson, BeeSummary:
Since prehistory, humans have braved the business ends of knives, scrapers, and mashers, all in the name of creating something delicious-or at least edible. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson traces...
- Author:Harris, Blake J.Summary:
A mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the videogame industry--...
- Author:Senior, HerewardSummary:
The insular character of Britain delayed the creation of professional police until the 19th century. This volume traces the course of British amateur policing until that time, at which point it deals with the foundation of the London...
- Author:Sewell, BillSummary:
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...
- 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...
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This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections...
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What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of...
- 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:Smith, Craig B.Summary:
Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the...
- 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 PBS...
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