Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is...

Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary NarrativeCommemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Tabl...

Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will in...

This book presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective....

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

The band return with the early medieval southern Italy (include Sicily) is a much more, its steadily changing the contact and border region in the ...

There are certain parallels between the operations Vladimir Putin initiated in the wake of the Ukraine crisis of 2014 and the approach Stalin took ...

A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and deter...

The story of men who braved the dangerous waterways of the uppper Fraser River to build the GTP Railway. Forbidding canyons, raging rapids and mena...

Stories Told takes you back into the epic journey of the Berger Inquiry, as Judge Berger travelled from community to community to hear stories told...

Summertime in late 19th-century St. Andrews was more than a vacation by the sea, it was a lifestyle. "Discovered" by a wealthy few who felt the nee...

The early arrival of the missionaries in Aotearoa set the scene for a new ‘moral colony’ that would be founded on religious precepts and modern Chr...

This book tells the stories of Hong Kong’s traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of cur...

Surveying the North sets out to recognise -- and celebrate -- Frank Swannell as British Columbia's most famous pioneer surveyor and his important p...

How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is ...

General Motors has been a world leader in automotive design for 100 years. No other large-scale manufacturer has put such energy and resources into...

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...

Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...

For everything cowboy and Wild West, look no further. The Cowboy Way is a tribute to the classic image of old-time lore and its influence on popula...

Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 2013–2014 event...

Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century travelled extensively or lived overseas for a time, and they often led ...

Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the ‘Jewish Savannah’, where a vibrant Jewish c...