History of the Americas

John C.

Por su calidad intelectual y academica este libro fue galardonado con el Premio Iberoamericano de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA), que se entrega anualmente a la mejor publicacion sobre Latinoamerica en el area de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.

The foreign missionary movement of the early 19th century grew out of the efforts of churches in New England to deal with the changes then taking place in society.

Filled with photographs, both historic and contemporary, this engaging book looks at the industrial pioneers of northwestern Ontario, and the activities which brought them to the wilderness: surveying, railroading, lumber, gold, bush piloting, transportation, and hydro power.

Fred Dickinson's diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century.

Although there has been a growing interest in regional economic development, the important aspect of regional business fluctuations has not received corresponding attention.

Uncle Will of Wildwood is a warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass that recalls a defining period of Kentucky's past.

Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays.

During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system.

Ebenezer Hiram Stedman, whose lively reminiscences of antebellum Kentucky were written as a series of letters to his daughter, was one of the pioneer papermakers of the state.

Heritage Toronto Book Award - Shortlisted, Non-Fiction BookThe story of Sunnybrook is one of perseverance by many dogged pioneers, rebelling and innovating to keep the organization alive.

In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio.

During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "e;King of the Rumrunners.

Maps published frorn the third quarter of the eighteenth century through the Civil War reflect in colorful detail the emergence of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the unfolding art of American cartography.

The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional historical journals.

In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales.

Touted as an American Eden, Kentucky provides one of the most dramatic social histories of early America.

The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson.

Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch toward the New World.

In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story.

For centuries before Europeans came to the New World, tobacco had an important role in the religious and social life of the early peoples of Kentucky.

Mexico and the United States share a border of more than 2,000 miles, and their histories and interests have often intertwined.

Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (18361901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky.

Por que el Estado debe hacerse cargo de los veteranos de Malvinas?

"e;Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you"e; are the words upon which Samuel M.

James Marshall's illuminating study of dispossession on the frontier begins with the autobiography of a pioneer who met repeated failure.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

One of the first great reference tools on the Commonwealth, this WPA Guide is an important, vital part of our heritage.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

Who committed Toronto's Silk Stocking Murder?

Otis Rice tells the dramatic story of how the first state beyond the mountains came into being.

A bestseller in Quebec that describes the horse-trading, intrigue and unrest behind Trudeau's quest to repatriate the Constitution.

Kentucky history centers on the Bluegrass; this is not to say that the rest of Kentucky does not have a rich story, but chronologically, the beginning was here.

Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon.

Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the twists and turns of the University of Louisville's two hundred year journey from provincial academy to national powerhouse.

Few institutions have been held in such fond regard and recalled in such nostalgic terms as the little red schoolhouse.

In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St.

Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution.

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The history of the oldest parish church in the Toronto area is also the history of North Toronto and a changing culture.

From the late 1940s through the 1970s, John Sherman Cooper, a quiet lawyer from Kentucky, ascended to become one of America's leading statesmen.

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services.

Wilson Wyatt was Jack Kennedy's presidential emissary to Sukarno in a crisis that might have cost the West the oil of the East Indies and lost Indonesia to the Communist orbit.

The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson.

The Jesuit Relations, a series of annual reports produced between 1632 and 1673 detailing the experiences of Society of Jesus missionaries in what is now Eastern Canada, have long been an influential source on the history of New France and encounters between European settlers and Indigenous Peoples.

La Constitution canadienne est un livre introductif sur la loi supreme du pays.

As a leader of the Southern Regional Council in the early 1960s, and later as executive director of the Field Foundation, Leslie Dunbar's advocacy and behind-the-scenes organizing made him one of the most significant (but least recognized) people in the civil rights movement.

Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independence-and its implications-by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke.