History: Specific Events & Topics
Subjects
-
The Last Hockey Game
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /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...
View full details -
The Lost City
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /An Atlantic BestsellerFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, cities throughout North America engaged in disruptive periods of massive "urban renewal" of...
View full details -
The Lost Wilderness
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionEvery summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wi...
View full details -
The Lynching of Peter Wheeler
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /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 ...
View full details -
The Making of a University
University of Huddersfield Press£20.00| /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...
View full details -
The Maori Meeting House
Te Papa Press£38.99| /Enter and explore the powerful, ancestral world of the whare whakairo, or Māori meeting house, with this engaging illustrated guide. Richly illustr...
View full details -
The Myth of William Wallace
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£19.99| /This book examines literary examples concerning William Wallace against the background of various historical sources and evaluates the construction...
View full details -
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...
View full details -
The New University of Cologne
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£19.99| /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...
View full details -
The Peak
Blacksmith Books (HK)£24.95| /The Peak is Hong Kongs top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...
View full details -
The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£34.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
View full details -
The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£90.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
View full details -
The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /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...
View full details -
The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /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...
View full details -
The Politics of Indigeneity
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organisation of indigenous peo...
View full details -
The Powerbroker
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors ...
View full details -
The Rag Boiler's Daughter
Interactive Press£23.99| /A sweeping account of Irish and Scottish families, this book portrays one woman's resolve to provide her children with a brighter future. This stor...
View full details -
The Road to Socialism
V & R Unipress GmbH£47.99| /The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 19451989. In the case stud...
View full details -
The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...
View full details -
The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...
View full details -
The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. In...
View full details -
The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. In...
View full details -
The Sound Toll at Elsinore
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£78.99| /Øresund, or the Soundthe body of water separating Denmark from Swedenhas always been strategically important. Between 1429 and 1857, Denmark levi...
View full details -
The Spencer Mansion
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /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...
View full details -
The Spirit of Competition
Coachbuilt Press£188.99| /A mythical collection assembled by a legendary collector has resided in Philadelphia for more than 30 years. In the Fall of 2008 Dr .Frederick Sime...
View full details -
The Still Good Times
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£20.00| /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...
View full details -
The Stories Were Not Told
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /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...
View full details -
The Sugar Doctor
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /In 1838, Dr Alexander Skinner leaves Scotland for Australia to make his fortune. He had met Scots whose families owned sugar plantations in the Wes...
View full details -
The Treblinka Death Camp
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£50.00| /"A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance is unique. Web...
View full details -
The True History of The Conquest of New Spain
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /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...
View full details -
The True History of The Conquest of New Spain
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /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...
View full details -
The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...
View full details -
The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...
View full details -
The Vocation Lectures
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...
View full details -
The Vocation Lectures
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two...
View full details -
The Wentworth Lectures
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /The Wentworth Lectures honour the contribution of Sir William (Bill) Wentworth to the creation of AIATSIS in 1964; now a world-renowned research, c...
View full details