Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. W...

Ever since I left the land that was my home, wherever I have traveled and lived, I have been asked the same question: How could a Hitler happen, in...

From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly im...

A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance is unique. Webb...

This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical editio...

Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...

Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...

The Wentworth Lectures honour the contribution of Sir William (Bill) Wentworth to the creation of AIATSIS in 1964; now a world-renowned research, c...

New Zealanders started hearing things in new ways when new audio technologies arrived from overseas in the late 19th century. From the first public...

In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble ov...

Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in U...

The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2...

When Through the Mackenzie Basin was published in 1908, it became an immediate success as an adventure book on the unsettled regions of Northwest C...

A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...

A fascinating pictorial history of North Vancouver city and district in British Columbia, covering over 90 locations scattered around the length an...

This book contains the daily logs kept by Columbus -- himself, and by Magellan's scribe, Antonio Pigafetta, on their fateful voyages to the unknown...

Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delive...

In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...