In the prairies, the small town rests comfortably in our memories as a setting of childhood innocence, good neighbours and stability. By following ...

What precisely is ‘Transatlantic Style’ in automobile design and why is it important to identify and celebrate it? The term is symbolic of a very i...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval in the 1960s and 70s which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued the...

Rich in stories, the Crowsnest Pass region in the southern Rocky Mountains still bears evidence of its tragedies, and one monumental triumph--a rai...

Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merel...

Ukraine’s 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity also became known as ‘The Euromaidan,’ which literally means ‘European Square’ and refers to the country’...

By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with gener­ations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...

Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...

The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...

For some time the Commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...

This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...

There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...

This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." – Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...

Manchester's Free Trade Hall was arguably the most important popular music venue in Great Britain between 1951 and 1996. After several incarnations...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...

Wikis, an Indian, tells his own story of how he grew from a child to a man, preserving the life and teachings of days that have long since passed a...

This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet states—Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers...

Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...

"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...

The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades con...

This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...

A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...

The first earnest attempt to explore the valley of the upper Yellowstone was made in 1859, by Colonel Raynolds, of the Corps of Engineers. His expe...

Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. Wool's colorful and surprisingly e...

For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...

This book, based on wide-ranging research on water, views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It looks at the emergence of civil...