Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through...
History and geography
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Author:Anderson, Nancy MargueriteSummary: - Author:Petersen, Myrna L.Summary:
Dr. McGill was one of Canada's first female pathologist and served as Director of the Saskatchewan Laboratories for many years. Noted for her work in forensic medicine, she lectured at Regina's RCMP Training Depot and in 1946 was named...
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The Patriot's History Reader examines the documents, speeches, and legal decisions that shaped our country into what it is today. It explores both oft-cited documents, like the Declaration of Independence, as well as those that are less...
- Author:Perrun, JodySummary:
When the Second World War broke out, Winnipeg was Canada’s fourth-largest city, home to strong class and ethnic divisions, and marked by a vibrant tradition of political protest. Citizens demonstrated their support for the war effort...
- Author:Kagan, DonaldSummary:
In the fifth century BC, the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict as dramatic and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Here Donald Kagan offers a new account of this vicious war of Greek...
- Author:Feltoe, RichardSummary:
The second book in a series that is the definitive retelling of the War of 1812. In his second of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812, author Richard Feltoe continues a battlefield chronicle that combines the...
- Author:Bruce, Scott G.Summary:
The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have...
- Author:King, MichaelSummary:
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be...
- The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top-secret military research agencyAuthor:Jacobsen, AnnieSummary:
In the first-ever history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military R&D agency, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen paints a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain,"...
- Author:Kaplan, JoshuaSummary:
In this course, University of Notre Dame professor, Joshua Kaplan provides and understanding of how American politics works and can help make sense of election results and political trends.
- Author:Zoboi, Ibi.Summary:
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her debut book--a tour de force that uses the principles of Kwanzaa to talk about the history of African Americans. The People Remember tells the journey of African...
- Author:Devine, HeatherSummary:
The search for a Métis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. The People Who Own Themselves reconstructs 250 years of Desjarlais family history across a substantial...
- Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
- Author:Winchester, SimonSummary:
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage...
- Author:Price, MunroSummary:
The history of France between 1789 and 1814 is well-known, but what happened in the years that followed? This volume looks at the period from the fall of Napoleon to the revolution of 1848, providing an account of the life of France...
- Author:Taheri, AmirSummary:
In this timely offering, Amir Taheri dissects the regime that has hijacked a nation for global "holy war" against the United States, revealing Iran's terror links, its nuclear capabilities, and how it can be defeated.
- Author:Clements, GillianSummary:
History of the buildings that have shaped the world in which we live, ranging from Stonehenge and the Step Pyramid to the high-rises that dominate our city skylines today.
- Author:Zacks, RichardSummary:
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong....
- Author:West, MatthewSummary:
The thirty-year golden age of piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, poverty and oppression prompted many men, and even a few women, to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes revenge.
- Author:Kenny, CharlesSummary:
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
For four thousand years, the size and vitality...
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