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Historic Papers on The Causes of The Civil War
Old LandMark Publishing 2005; US$ 4.00A writer aptly says: "For more than fifty formative years of our history the Old South was the dominating power in the nation, as it had been in the foundation of the colonies out of which came the Republic, and later in fighting its battles of independence and in forming its policies of government. * * * Whatever of strength or symmetry the republic... more...
The Emergence of Everything
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 19.99Framing the West argues that photography was intrinsic to British territorial expansion and settlement on the northwest coast. Williams shows how male and female settlers used photography to establish control over the territory and its indigenous inhabitants, as well as how native peoples eventually turned the technology to their own purposes. Photographs... more...
Falling Room
University of Nebraska Press 2006; US$ 17.95A tale of how one young man matures through the sometimes violent blessing of social change and finds himself - and a sense of purpose - through the loss of innocence and naivete, the Seattle of his youth, and his father. more...
The Oregon Trail
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 35.00A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping... more...
Remember the Alamo
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00From pilgrims to pioneers to flappers . . . from Plymouth Rock to Pearl Harbor?the history of America in bite-size chunks How did the conquistadors first stumble across America?and what were the Spanish looking for anyway? What was the Dred Scott Supreme Court case and how did it affect the Civil War? And while some of us may indeed remember the Alamo,... more...
America's Backyard
Zed Books 2009; US$ 32.95The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. Americas Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochets... more...
A Companion to American Technology
Wiley 2008; US$ 228.95A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing Analyzes the ways... more...
Here Is Where
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.00Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll?s eye-opening ? and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll?s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln?s son was saved by the brother of Lincoln?s... more...
Death On The Ice
Doubleday Canada 2010; US$ 12.95Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the hope of a few penniew in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life. For two long, freezing days and nights a party of seal... more...
Into the Blue
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 22.00Award-winning journalist Andrea Curtis explores the shadows cast over her family by a century-old shipwreck and uncovers the tragedy, disaster and promise of early life on the Great Lakes. Every family has a story, passed down through generations. For Andrea Curtis that story is the wreck of the SS J.H. Jones. In 1906, the late-November swells of... more...









