Shortlisted, Toronto Book AwardsOn May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy. This was only the fifth tim...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionEvery summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wi...

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white ...

This book is a record of the development of an institution with a remarkable history. Its foundations go back to the early part of the nineteenth c...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...

The University of Cologne has an unusual history: It was founded - for the second time - by the city council in 1919, more than 100 years after its...

The Peak is Hong Kong’s top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...

The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...

The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American poli...

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American poli...

The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organisation of indigenous peo...

From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors ...

The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945–1989. In the case stud...

This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...

This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...

"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. In...

"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. In...

Øresund, or the Sound—the body of water separating Denmark from Sweden—has always been strategically important. Between 1429 and 1857, Denmark levi...