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McGill came to Canada from Scotland in 1766 at the age of twenty-two. After ten years as a fur trader, he moved to Montreal and cofounded Todd, McGill & Co. He continued in the fur trade but also encouraged general trade and in later years pioneered the...

"A Long Way from Home" offers a comprehensive account of the tuberculosis epidemic among the Inuit in the mid-part of this century. The Inuit were victims not only of the epidemic but also of the Canadian government's shockingly slow response and lack of...

Born in England in 1908, Lewis earned a doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1934 and continued his research on nuclear physics there until 1939. During the war he worked on the development of radar and in 1945 became chief superintendent of the...

After an introductory chapter dealing with the conduct of external relations before 1909, the book examines three distinct phases of the department's development. Although the department had modest beginnings under the first under-secretary, Sir Joseph...

In 1946, with its own minister for the first time, the Department of External Affairs embarked on a period of impressive growth and assumed responsibility for a broader range of foreign policy issues than ever before. Under the expert guidance of Lester...

The openness of local residents enabled Louise Abbott to create a remarkable documentary study of this overlooked region of Quebec. In The Coast Way, Abbott focuses on the people of the Lower North Shore and the ways in which their lives have changed...

In 1624 Simon Stock, a missionary priest of the Discalced Carmelite order in England, began correspondence with the recently founded Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in Rome in an attempt to interest it in the establishment of a novitiate for English...

The Khmer Empire of Cambodia which flourished from the 9th to the 15th century, gave birth to some of the world's richest works of art and architecture. At its peak in the 12th century, during the reigns of Suryavarman II and the Buddhist King Jayavarman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780319290378Author Ordnance SurveyImprint Ordnance SurveyPublisher Ordnance Survey

Part memoir, part reportage, and all good reading, Take Down Flag & Feed Horses is the first volume devoted to the daily work of staff members at Yellowstone National Park. Written by a retired National Park Service historian, the book is divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252060526Author James GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Drawn from the rich archives of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this collection brings together twenty-nine oral histories from people of varying ages and occupations who participated in civil rights activism at the grassroots level. These highly...

With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Thomas Summerhill's Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance...

Through the letters brothers and sisters wrote to each other over the course of nearly a century (1840-1920), Annette Atkins reveals the inner workings of ten nineteenth-century families, illuminating their everyday lives and central relationships...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948975622Author Richard AskewFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Millstream BooksPublisher Millstream BooksWeight(grams) 169g

The 1960s are well documented but not well understood; the rhetoric of and reaction to the decade continues to trouble American public discourse. This work by Douglas Knight, who served as president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969 during clashes on...

A spectacular example of collective violence, the Great Strikes of 1877 was the first national strike and the first major strikes against the railroad industry. In some places, notably St. Louis, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954874018Author Fouad Al-FarsyFormat HardbackPage Count 315Imprint Panarc International LtdPublisher Panarc International Ltd

Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." The city was a predominantly white middle-class bedroom community in the 1970s when large numbers of Chinese...

The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. Reo workers, most typically white, rural, native-born Protestant men, were dubbed Reo...

This series of journals takes a close-up look at elite military and law enforcement forces from around the world. Explore these elite units and their missions with atmospheric photos of their equipment and personnel. The 64 page format features colour...

In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, secularist intellectuals became a much-forgotten group. As the new revolutionary elite consolidated, secularists were marginalized, stigmatized, and accused of being ""Westoxicated"" and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869221021Author Christian DubrauFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Dom PublishersPublisher Dom PublishersWeight(grams) 1656gDimensions(mm) 282mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848177178Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848177161Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books Ltd

Salisbury Cathedral (German)Book InformationISBN 9781841655963Author PitkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Pitkin PublishingPublisher Batsford

The contributors to this landmark collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old "clash of civilizations" and instead examine the particular histories of American nationalism,...

In this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres' words, 'This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857344229Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823435579Author Susan Goldman RubinImprint Holiday HousePublisher Holiday HouseWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 201mm * 10mm

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The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean...

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From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the...

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Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in...

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A look at the intricate history of collegiate women's support networks-otherwise known as sororities Sororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek...

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