The Peninsular War (1807-1814) was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic War, where the French were oppose...

The Peninsular War (1807-1814) was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic War, where the French were oppose...

Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new ...

Hmong story cloths provide a visual documentation of the historical and cultural legacy of the Hmong people from the country of Laos. The Hmong fir...

Dr. Thomas Morland Hocken (1836--1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862 at the age of 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed b...

The people of the Nechako region are not unfamiliar with hardship, environmental devastation and protecting what they hold dear. June Wood chronicl...

Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man's quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While re...

Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrant...

Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretc...

Volumes have been written on the equipment of the German Army of World War II, including tanks, trucks, motorcycles, weapons, and personal equipmen...

Curious about the previous inhabitants of the lake community where her family has vacationed for over one hundred years, author Shelley O’Callaghan...

How the Chinese Created Canada provides an in-depth look at the triumphs and struggles of one of Canada's most vibrant communities. Chinese culture...

French explorers first came to the New World seeking uncharted lands and unprecedented wealth. What they brought with them, however, was a unique c...

For generations, the Polish have been among the top 10 immigrants to Canada. With them has come their rich culture, religious strength and steadfas...

The Scots in Canada made their mark as explorers, fur traders, soldiers, business leaders, prime ministers and more. Ex-pat Paul Cowan marks their ...

The 2016 presidential election has shown that the Republican Party is at a crossroads. While a Trump candidacy took even the most seasoned politica...

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Wester...

Preface; Introduction; Date and Historical Context; Manuscript Transmission; Treatment of the Text; Text and Translation; Commentary; Bibliographic...

The Nanaimo Bastion, which marked its 150th anniversary in 2003, remains a prominent symbol of Nanaimo's heritage as an HBC fort, coal-mining centr...

Hula and surfing represent the quintessential Hawaiian experience. Over 270 original photographs and postcard images are presented chronologically ...

The papers of this volume move from the abstract scheme of an intercultural humanism of the future to concrete cultural expressions of humanism wit...

Countless men served in World War II. In combat, on the seas, in administrative offices, and in the skies. This is a vivid and engrossing account i...

Using documents from German, American, and Hungarian archives, and previously unpublished photographs, the author describes Hitler's obsession with...

Guiding principles: Do chronicle the past as it really happened, Leopold von Ranke stressed long ago. Abiding by his spirit, this volume narrates t...

Since the early 20th century the more than 130 hamlets or farms in Scandinavia and Orkney known by the name Husaby, Huseby, Husby, Husebø etc. have...

Tells the story of 1,564 Torahs stolen by Nazis from a synagogue in Czechoslovakia, rescued twenty years later, and placed in the hands of people w...

He came penniless to the United States after surviving the Holocaust Hart Hasten rose to the top levels of finance and industry. He became an integ...

Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journ...

This peer reviewed journal serves as a forum for diverse perspectives and approaches among historians of ideas and scholars of other disciplines wh...

The recent history of post-Soviet societies is often described in terms of the transition metaphor. Images of movement as well as changing places a...

At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...

Papers from a conference about images and altars in Medieval Europe 800-1300, illuminating the interplay between materiality, liturgy, iconography ...

From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms. Some of these images were positive and s...

This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey t...

This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey t...

This is the first comprehensive critical study of Western literature about Thailand. It offers a broad view, covering literary attempts to describe...