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A fast-paced tour through several centuries of Canadian historyBook InformationISBN 9780773530904Author R. T. NaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 778g

The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary,...

Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since World War...

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C. Bolton gives a distinct voice to one of the most elusive groups in the society of the Old South. Bolton's detailed examination reveals much about the lives of these landless white tenants and laborers...

In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called the Black Patch for the dark tobacco grown there, big business arrived with a vengeance, eliminating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822304296Author Stanley R. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773532281Author G. Bruce DoernFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams)...

Most Canadian universities were created in response to society's perceived need for men and women trained in the professions, or at least prepared to take up gainful employment that contributes to the national economy. In contrast, Bishop's was inspired...

David Ross McCord's interest in collecting archival material - historical manuscripts, his personal family papers, and correspondence concerning his search for artifacts - established the mandate for the subsequent acquisition of material into this...

One of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history, the great white migration left its mark on virtually every family in every southern upland and flatland town. In this extraordinary record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants...

First published in 1937 in honor of the Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of lively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252013911Author Pete R. DanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

American distrust of government, polititians and authority in general can be traced back to the time of the official investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the suspicion generated by the publication of the Warren report,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847327901Author Sarah WarwickFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors...

Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions reveals the life of an Italian Jesuit as he worked at three missions in the northern Rocky Mountains from 1874 to 1878. Meticulously translated and carefully annotated, the letters of Father Philip...

Allen Stouffer's analysis of Ontario's response to the freedmen reveals a virulent strain of racism that helps to explain why British North Americans were slow to join their British and American counterparts in the North Atlantic antislavery triangle. ...

Dechene's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her...

"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing fixation on German remorse'...

"...the quality of each of these essays is excellent, and the book warrants extensive reading by political scientists, sociologists, and all scholars of the contemporary Middle East. -American Journal of Sociology "This book's ethnographic material...

In this compelling portrait of interracial activism, Mark A. Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier. Mobilized and inspired by the idea of a Union that would...

The Old Northwest is an unparalleled account of the pioneer period, the problems of settlers, and the westward movement of the American people. No historian, professional or otherwise, who is interested in the history of the region comprising Ohio,...

A lot of things started in Indiana the automotive industry for one and Indiana has produced a great many ideas, many wrong headed and some downright wicked. Viewed one way, this book is a study of Indiana ideas, for threads run through it the guest for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252015465Author S GompersFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

Near the end of his life, the great Romantic artist Eug-ne Delacroix (1798-1863) painted one of the most enigmatic episodes from the Bible: Jacob wrestling with the angel. This painting, which decorates the wall of the Chapel of the Holy Angels in the...

This book situates U.S. foreign policy processes in the contexts of three imperial presidencies: the administrations of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush. The contributors examine the changing contours of U.S. relations with South Asian...

Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate...

The National Barn Dance was the nation's most popular country music radio show during the 1930s and 1940s, essentially defining country and western entertainment until it was supplanted by the Grand Ole Opry and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. Broadcast for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788180900334Author Deo SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 1336Imprint Bharatiya Kala PrakashanPublisher Bharatiya Kala PrakashanDimensions(mm) 280mm * 240mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862815417Author David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Appletree Press LtdPublisher Appletree Press LtdWeight(grams) 125g

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. This coursebook covers Paper 2, World History Topic 8: Independence Movements (1800-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first...

Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of...

Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don...

Covers a world of magic, mystery and monumental buildings - the Pyramids, the temples, the Valley of the Kings - and introduces this ancient people, from god-kings to the working family, their astonishing feats of engineering and the beliefs that drove...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506792228Author Lothar GallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Brill SchoninghPublisher Brill SchoninghWeight(grams) 3506g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783170197541Author Jeannette GodauFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint KohlhammerPublisher KohlhammerWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181990Author Fridus SteijlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 989g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865607010Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906969011Author Peter DarmanFormat HardbackImprint Park Lane BooksPublisher Park Lane Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840136876Author Marina CardinaudFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Grange BooksPublisher Grange Books