The fourteenth-century law codex Guta lag is presented here in translation by Christine Peel. The volume includes full textual notes, including com...

Winner, Alberta Historical Resources Foundation Heritage Award, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publications, and Redgees L...

The first international biography of Niels Bukh (1880-1950), the charismatic founder of the special Danish school of modern gymnastics. His team of...

This classic, definitive series continues with this volume on German halftracked vehicles from 1909-1945. Spielberger, a leading expert in the fiel...

The story of an iconic model in the long history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the WLA, which was used by Allied forces during WWII, is told for ...

Often described as the most intact native ecosystem in the country, Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island holds a special place in the minds of al...

After receiving a bundle of worn letters written by her late grandfather George Black Jack Vowel during the First World War, journalist J...

The spirited stories in Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin capture the severity and grace of the distinct pioneer culture that resides in British Colum...

The Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin anthology celebrates this beautiful and remote region of British Columbia. From the days of the gold rush throug...

This is a delightful collection of tales by authors from British Columbia's rugged Cariboo-Chilcotin region, and a few "outsiders." Joining well-kn...

This book offers a fascinating portrait of the Caucasus at the dawn of the modern era. Written in Persian and completed in 1845, it offered the fir...

The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured...

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, i...

Preface; The Sagas of Heimskringla -- Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction, Snorri and Heimskringla Through the Centuries; Authorship; Snorr...

This is the first part of a new translation in three volumes of Heimskringla, the collection of sagas covering the history of Norway from its legen...

This is the third part in the three-volume translation of Heimskringla

Built in the turn of the twentieth century, the Hejaz Railway was initially mocked in Europe as a wildly improbable scheme. Still used partially in...

"Helpless Imperialists" enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety ...

An original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west. With theatrical twists and turns, Her Voice, Her Cen...

George Case is a writer on ideas and popular culture, and an acknowledged authority on the band Led Zeppelin. He is the author of Jimmy Page: Magus...

In recent years, rapid changes to Arctic environments and conditions have spurred much anal-ysis into the melting of sea and inland ice, the openin...

Two aspects of the Egyptian civilisation characterise the work of Erik Iversen: Its original art and literature, and its reception in Europe from c...

Text in Dutch. There exists in the history of the Roman Catholic Church is hardly a bloodier chapter than the struggle against the Cathars, who wer...

In January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelli...

Fran Kaye looks at a variety of public arts institutions, including the Glenbow, Banff Centre, and 25th Street Theatre, to see how each has partici...

Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern ...

Highway historian Stephen H Provost presents a fun-filled look at the history and attractions of one of California’s great highways in this book. T...

"Before it was a modern freeway, California’s State Highway 99 was the main street of California, a simple two-lane road that passed through the do...

The fragmentary medieval chronicle, Historia Norwegie, is the oldest piece of historical writing from Norway, and probably our first specimen of No...

This study includes a revised model of the historical geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (c. 1969-1715 BC) that is based on to...

A historian's historian, F W Maitland was never to be caught indulging in fanciful speculation about times long past. Rather, he said, "We shall ha...

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of...

Consists of three parts, concerned with the most substantive revolutions in English government and manners: from the Saxon settlement to the Norman...