History
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Auteur:Tinniswood, AdrianSommaire:Adrian Tinniswood brings alive this dynamic chapter in history, where clashes between pirates of the East and governments of the West grew increasingly intense and dangerous. In vivid detail, Tinniswood recounts the brutal struggles,...
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Auteur:KONSTAM, AngusSommaire:When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but these characters hailed from one period. Known as "The Golden Age of Piracy", this period only lasted around a quarter of a century - from...
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Auteur:INGHAM, Anne MarieSommaire:The vivid story of Maggie Lilly and her family, great pioneers of the rugged north west of Australia, bringing to life the struggles and triumphs of the early days of settlement, and the many fascinating characters who made up these...
- Auteur:Lund, Gerald N.Sommaire:
Pillar of Light — the first volume in the series The Work and the Glory — begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family. In the 1820s they move from Vermont to Palmyra Township in upstate New York in search of better farmland....
- Auteur:Pearson, Monte L.Sommaire:
Many articles in the media examine contemporary American issues and compare them to the problems that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. But before the rise of the Empire, a time of one-man rule and limited freedoms, there was the...
- Auteur:Dechêne, LouiseSommaire:
Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canadais a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the...
- Auteur:Marchand, Charles-AndréSommaire:
"AVANT LE CRIME ORGANISÉ, IL Y A EU LE VICE COMMERCIALISÉ… Montréal a toujours été l'une des villes les plus tolérantes en Amérique du Nord. Ce n'est pas étonnant qu'elle se soit rapidement imposée, dès le XIXe siècle, comme une plaque...
- Auteur:Dennis, DarrellSommaire:
Employing pop culture examples, personal anecdote and a cutting wit, Darrell Dennis deftly weaves history with current events to entertain, inform and provide a convincing, readable overview of First Nations issues and why they matter...
- Auteur:Traverso, EnzoSommaire:
L'histoire s'écrit de plus en plus au prisme de la subjectivité de l'auteur, comme si, pour l'écrire, il fallait révéler l'intériorité de ceux qui la font, mais aussi celle de ceux qui l'écrivent. Ni...
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Auteur:Ray, Deborah KoganSommaire:Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
- Auteur:Miller, David Reed, Tanner, Tracey, Martin-McGuire, Peggy, Tanner, James N.Sommaire:
"Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega' Kínna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive...
- Auteur:McCartney, LeslieSommaire:
A project originally conceived to document the biographies of Elders by the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute, Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich'in K'yuu Gwiidandài' Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih is an invaluable...
- Auteur:Erickson, CarollySommaire:
The tumult and opulence of England's Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade...
- Auteur:Sinclair, Eleanor A.Sommaire:
Eleanor Sinclair opens the yellowed pages of her daily diaries and revisits the three years she spent training at the Holy Family Hospital School of Nursing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in the 1950s.
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Auteur:Koster, John P.Sommaire:Recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and...
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Auteur:Bogosian, EricSommaire:In 1921 a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. Eric Bogosian casts fresh light on one of the great crimes of the twentieth century and one of history...
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Auteur:McNicoll, SusanSommaire:The conventional opinion is that professional Canadian theatre began in 1953 with the founding of the Stratford Festival. But Susan McNicoll asks how this could be, when the majority of those taking the stage at Stratford were...
- Auteur:Reid, KenSommaire:
From the national bestselling author of One Night Only come 39 new stories about what a big-league goal can mean to an NHLer Including interviews with Billy Smith, Chris Mason, Damian Rhodes, Christian Thomas, and Slap Shot's Dave...
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Auteur:Bentley, Peter J. G.Sommaire:
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