North America

First Published in 1936 America After Sixty Years presents the travel diaries of two generations of Englishmen, W. E. Price, and his son M. Philips Price. Part I of the book contains W. E. Price’s American journey and throws light on topics like...

In 1861, Henry Hind led a two-month long canoe expedition of the Moisie River, Quebecs longest river, from Sept-Iles to the Ashuanipi River in Labrador. This classic book provides a unique glimpse of the raw natural beauty of the land and wildlife, and a...

Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou is a new bilingual volume based on a series of oral interviews with Gwich'in elders living in rural northeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Richly illustrated, the book covers a wide range of topics...

This eclectic and carefully organized range of essays-from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies-is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and U.S. Wests. It explores,...

This is a wide-ranging inquiry into the forces that define the nations of North America and that, through convergence, are bringing North America's peoples and institutions closer together. These socio-cultural and regional forces form a web of factors...

From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued American capitalism. This panoramic political-economic history of the country, surveys the ruthlessly...

Eckstorm was the daughter of a fur trader living in Maine who published six books and many articles on natural history, woods culture, and Indian language and lore. A writer from Maine with a national readership, Eckstorm drew on her unique relationship...

Sean Harvey explores the morally entangled territory of language and race in this intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European...

How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? As new states fleshed out expanded national maps, how did they represent their advances? Were there any distinct pan-American patterns? The renowned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503508733Author LARDICCIPage Count 684Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1673g

Being an explorer is not for the squeamish and exploring the new world brought front and centre particular types of characters. Each of the explorers described in this work was quite different, yet they shared the yearning to find something new and if...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515104197Author Kurt WidmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905087181Author David WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of U.S. racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post-civil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal...

A compact synthesis of David J. Weber's prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America, from the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain's gradual retreat Praise for the previous edition: "I cannot imagine a single book giving a more...

Almost unimaginably immense, North America stretches from a fewdegrees short of the North Pole to a few degrees shy of theequator. Archaeologists are now racing to unravel the mysteriouspast of the forgotten peoples who once inhabited this sprawlingland...

The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century provides a broad, comprehensive overview of the US civil service in the postwar period and examines the reforms and changes throughout that time.The author...

World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump, are remembered in film, museums, public art,...

Reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrative. He...

Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement even the most 'special' aspects of...

Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and genderFrom the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926700465Author Duane RadfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Blue Bike BooksPublisher Blue Bike BooksWeight(grams) 330g

Since the inception of the New Archaeology in the 1960s anthropological archaeologists have been attempting to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. The vast majority of this research has focused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551051154Author Ted StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lone Pine Publishing,CanadaPublisher Lone Pine Publishing,CanadaWeight(grams) 262g

Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly...

The remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence. Just weeks before police would kill him in Gallup, New Mexico, in March of 1973, Larry...

Since the inception of the New Archaeology in the 1960s anthropological archaeologists have been attempting to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. The vast majority of this research has focused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964169494Author Meyer KayserlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Hubert Allen & Assoc.Publisher Hubert Allen & Assoc.Weight(grams)...

In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the...

From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515733Author Charles M GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Borealis BooksPublisher Borealis BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707067Author Kristi NoemFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher Twelve

Obsidian Across the Americas draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian...

Originally published in 1933, and written by "America's historian", James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil...

The revised and updated edition, including all-new information on Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Betty Ford America's first ladies have captured the hearts of the citizens of our country ever since its humble beginnings. This newly...

The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San Francisco's Chinatown-the largest Chinese community outside of Asia-shares the stories of...

First Published in 1936 America After Sixty Years presents the travel diaries of two generations of Englishmen, W. E. Price, and his son M. Philips Price. Part I of the book contains W. E. Price's American journey and throws light on topics like...

Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of U.S. racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post-civil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal...

Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two...

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. "Continental...