North America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820474229Author Stan LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228843283Author Craig E JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Known as the Death Coast for its...

The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win...

In the past thirty years, the study of French-Indian relations in the centre of North America has emerged as an important field for examining the complex relationships that defined a vast geographical area, including the Great Lakes region, the Illinois...

Without his New York supporters, it's highly unlikely Abraham Lincoln would have made it to the White House. Yet the majority of New Yorkers never voted for him and were openly hostile to him and his politics. New Yorkers reacted to Lincoln's wartime...

How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount...

Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernan Cortes in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879511439Author Jack H. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

Between the First and Second World Wars, the U.S. Navy used the experience it had gained in battle to prepare for future wars through simulated conflicts, or war games, at the Naval War College. In Playing War John M. Lillard analyzes individual war...

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...

Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book AwardWinner of the J. David Greenstone Book PrizeWinner of the S. M. Lipset Best Book AwardThis pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm

*Winner of the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction* *Selected as a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star* An insightful and perspective-shifting new book, from a celebrated journalist, about reclaiming identity and...

Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. On a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816502974Author Grenville GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 543g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946911Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish...

In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern...

`And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of all of them I have taken possession for their highnesses, by proclamation made and with the royal standard unfurled, and no one contradicted me' - Christopher Columbus ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997747706Author Mike PottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint 102nd Place LLCPublisher 102nd Place LLCWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Throughout history, across very different types of state and society, petitions and petitioning have been ubiquitous practices and the interaction between petitioners and authority has been a crucial dynamic in exercising and contesting power...

After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In IRON...

In Eastern Metis, Michel Bouchard, Sebastien Malette, and Siomonn Pulla demonstrate the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Metis communities across Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West...

This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely...

Jennings describes the experience of the first pioneers of the North American continent, who migrated from Siberia across what is now Beringia-nomadic people who traveled over the continents and islands of the Americas, establishing networks of trails...

In this "first-rate work of historical research and storytelling" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578720814Author Dale M BrumfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Hjh MediaPublisher Hjh MediaWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the...

Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and...

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)...

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