Between 1945 and 1970, Canada's Department of National Defence sponsored scientific research into the myriad challenges of military operations in cold regions.
The rapid industrialization of Curacao, based on oil refining, resulted in an urgent need for labor which the small community could not provide sufficiently.
Explores how the 1789 congressional election between two future presidents with differing views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights influenced the destiny of the United States.
The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective.
'The Essential Writings of President Woodrow Wilson' masterfully presents a spectrum of pivotal works that underscore the progressive ideologies and policies of Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
The 'Complete Works' by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge serves as a compelling anthology that encapsulates a significant era in American political and literary history.
In 'Founding Fathers: Complete Biographies, Their Articles, Historical & Political Documents,' readers are presented with a meticulously curated collection that explores the multifaceted personalities and philosophies of America's foundational figures.
In "e;Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: American Slavery Through Foreigner's Eyes"e;, Frederick Law Olmsted masterfully delves into the heart of American slavery through the perspective of a foreigner.
Investigadores sociales que habitan la Patagonia argentina y chilena discuten acerca del territorio y sus representaciones, abordando temas como los estudios sobre las fronteras, los mapas, las migraciones, la interculturalidad y las religiosidades.
In this new and original study of the origins of the United States Constitution, award winning scholar Lawrence Goldstone demonstrates that what was left out of the document by the Framers is of equal importance to what was included.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today's Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.
Ripped from today's headlines, Unsolved is the first ever book to examine the sacrifices made by American's heroic law enforcement officers who were murdered while their killers escaped justice.
They are four-legged police officers sniffing their way through mountains, tropical forests, and urban jungles, and they operate in the southernmost Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, just seven miles from Venezuela.
Esta obra presenta una serie de investigaciones acerca de las prácticas y métodos de documentación sobre ocho lenguas fuegopatagónicas: selk'nam, haush, alakaluf / kawesqar, yagan, aonekko 'a'ien, teushen, günün a yajüch y mapuzungun realizadas en la región en el último tercio del siglo xix y hasta mediados del xx en un contexto de expropiación territorial y genocidio de los pueblos preexistentes.
This story of a conflict between two commanders amid the struggle to oust the British from South Carolina is "e;great for anyone teaching leadership"e; (Military Review).
El viejo y arraigado canon sobre la historia de América reza que Colón «descubrió» un continente extraño y trajo historias de sus incalculables riquezas.
Today, when politicians, pundits, and scholars speak of states rights, they are usually referring to Southern efforts to curtail the advance of civil rights policies or to conservative opposition to the federal government under the New Deal, Great Society, and Warren Court.
This is a remarkable work for a man who has always been engaged with the busy duties of a missionary priest in the United States and Ireland and yet has found time to build up in a truly historical manner and the best literary style this extensive volume.
When it comes to sheer savagery endured by the American fighting man, few combat theaters could match the Pacific in WorldWar II: the sodden malarial and Japanese infested jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal, the kamikaze pilots for whom death was no deterrent, and the blood-soaked beaches taken by island-hopping Marines.
