From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress,...
History and geography
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Author:Chang, JungSummary: - Author:McIver, DonSummary:
Sixty people died in 1857, leaving behind their stories and the tales of those involved. In 1857, the Desjardins Canal bridge collapsed under a Toronto-to-Hamilton train, creating one of the worst railway wrecks in North American...
- Author:Wright, James EdwardSummary:
This book recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return. By 1969 nearly half of the junior enlisted men who died in Vietnam were draftees. Their median age was...
- Author:Luciuk, KassandraSummary:
Enemy Alien tells the story of Canada's first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, a Ukrainian internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. Based closely on John Boychuk's memoir--the only...
- Author:Johnson, StevenSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of a pirate who changed the world. Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die...
- Author:Coyle, Brendan, Arnis, MelanieSummary:
On June 20, 1942, the lighthouse at Estevan Point on Vancouver Island was shelled by the Japanese submarine I-26. It was the first enemy attack on Canadian soil since the War of 1812. But this was only one incident in the incredible and...
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Energy in the Americas provides a hemispheric perspective on the historical construction of contemporary debates on the role of energy in society Understanding the history of energy and its evolving place of energy in society is...
- Author:Dimmel, Brandon R.Summary:
For decades, people living in communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened...
- Author:de la Fosse, Frederick, Shipman, Scott D.Summary:
Farming in the Canadian backwoods in the late 1800s was a prospect that enticed many young Englishmen to cross the Atlantic. One such fellow was Frederick de la Fosse, whose well-meaning uncle paid £100 per annum for his young nephew to...
- Author:Porter, RoySummary:
In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
- Author:Pinker, StevenSummary:
The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the...
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"Entangling the Quebec Actadds original and valuable insight to existing scholarship on the Quebec Act, which has declined in the past half century despite significant constitutional developments in Canada and the rise of "new" imperial...
- Author:Mackenzie, Nadine, Vrignon, Madeleine, Therrien, Joanne, Poliquin, LaurentSummary:
Nadine Mackenzie vous emmène au cœur de l’Ouest canadien pour vous livrer ses secrets les plus extravagants… Au fil des pages, vous découvrirez comment un cochon déclencha un conflit international et quelle nourriture étrange permit aux...
- Author:Gilbert, Anne, Bock, Michel, Thériault, Joseph-YvonSummary:
Dans Les lieux de mémoire, Pierre Nora affirme que "la mémoire s'enracine dans le concret, l'espace, le geste, l'image et l'objet" (1984, xix). Entre lieux et mémoire adopte une perspective semblable et...
- Author:Guevara, CheSummary:
Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine by birth, became a central leader of the Cuban revolution and one of the outstanding communists of the 20th century. This book is his firsthand account of the military campaigns and political events that...
- Author:Hosking, Geoffrey A.Summary:
In this course, University College London professor Geoffrey Hosking discusses the four themes that make European history different from other parts of the world: the nation-state, citizenship, the scientific method, and broadly based...
- Author:Goddard, JohnSummary:
Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. In this special excerpt we visit Erland Lee Museum, which stands as an...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement from his native Cleveland. Ohio, was...
- Author:Kershaw, AlexSummary:
In this harrowing war saga, Kershaw recounts the incredible story of the U.S. Navy's deadliest World War II submarine, the USS Tang. Across the Pacific theater, dodging mines and depth charges, the 80 men of the Tang became legends. By...
- Author:Bassler, Gerhard P.Summary:
Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German...
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