Local history Books
NeWest Press Strange Days: Amazing Stories from Canada's
Book SynopsisThe 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada''s history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the ''20s - tales of serial killers, athletes, con men, crackpots, prime ministers, bathing beauties, and more - all of them nearly too amazing to believe and too entertaining to be forgotten.
£15.29
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Island Kids
Book SynopsisThis is a history of British Columbia''s island children, told in their voices, from their perspectives. Composed of twenty-two stories, Island Kids is a snapshot of a period and place in time. The topics range from quintessentially coastal experiences, like a day at the beach, to stories that deal with serious issues, such as BC''s history of residential schools, but they all remain true to the experience of the children telling the story. At the end of each chapter is a section called "What do we know for sure?" that gives the reader greater depth and context. The stories are written in a dynamic and authentic voice and are aimed at readers aged eight to twelve. Unlike history that has either been fictionalized or told from an adult''s perspective, the Courageous Kids series brings history to kids in their own words. Truly original, Kidmonton, Rocky Mountain Kids, and Island Kids strive to communicate the events and emotions of kids. Please visit www.courageouskids.ca for more information on the whole Courageous Kids series.
£13.29
Cornish Hillside Publications Some Old Cornish Folk: Characters from St
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Aberdeen & N.E.Scotland Family History Society Clock and Watch Makers of Aberdeen and North East
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£6.86
Empire Publications Ltd Reminiscences of Manchester: & Its Surrounding
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£11.35
Bene Factum Publishing Ltd Almost Heaven: Tales from a Cathedral
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£12.34
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Leicester
Book SynopsisFoul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Leicester - True Crime BooksWithin the pages of this book are some of the most notorious and often baffling cases in Leicestershire's history. From the appalling double murder at Melton Mowbray in 1856, known locally as the Peppermint Billy murders, to the 1953 murderer Joseph Reynolds who killed because he wanted to know how it felt. This book explores the cases that dominated the headlines, not only across the city and surrounding county but also nationwide. These are the stories of those involved in Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths at a time when murder was a capital offence and guilt or innocence was proven without the benefit of modern forensic technique or DNA profiling. Included in this list are also some of those mysterious cases that will remain forever unsolved, as in the now famous case of Bella Wright. Known across the whole country as the green bicycle murder, it commanded public attention in 1919 because of the complex and puzzling nature of the crime and has continued to do so ever since. Just as many of the other cases re-examined here have done.
£9.99
Redcliffe Press Ltd Bristol Under Siege: Surviving the Wartime Blitz
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The Squeeze Press Glastonbury and District Mail: The Post Offices
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The Squeeze Press Glastonbury and District Mail: The Post Offices
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£17.99
Empire Publications Ltd MANCHESTER: IT NEVER RAINS...: A CITY PRIMED FOR
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Umbria Press An Elford Childhood: Growing Up in a
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£12.39
Sigma Press Lake District Tea Shop Walks
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£10.97
Sansom & Co A History & Celebration of The Playhouse Theatre:
Book SynopsisA History of the Playhouse Theatre in Weston super mare
£11.88
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Rebel Women of the West Coast: Their Triumphs,
Book SynopsisHere are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women--driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and actions made them rebels in society''s eyes. Many faced hardship and ridicule as they pursued their goals. In these vivid biographies, Rich Mole chronicles the lives of some of the most celebrated and controversial women in BC, Washington and Oregon, including: pioneer Catherine Schubert, who faced danger and starvation on her heroic journey west; ballot-box rebel Abigail Scott Duniway, who endured poverty and scathing criticism during her fight for women''s suffrage; Irene Bonnie Baird, who disguised herself as a nurse to write an exposé of their ordeals of Depression-era protesters; complex and contradictory doctor Bethenia Owens-Adair, who broke gender barriers yet is also remembered for a more tragic legacy. By demanding equality and respect in lecture halls, shipyards, government assemblies and operating theatres, these women helped shape the society we live in today.
£10.44
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Dirty Thirties Desperadoes: Forgotten Victims of
Book SynopsisIn October 1935, three Doukhobor farm boys embarked on a violent trail of robbery and murder that stretched from Manitoba to Alberta. By the time the spree ended near Banff, seven people were dead, including the fugitives and four law-enforcement officers. For the next 70 years, these farm-boy killers held the distinction of being the RCMP''s deadliest adversaries, yet many questions about the shocking case remained unanswered. This gripping narrative reveals surprising new details about the tragic events as it chronicles the disastrous impact of the Great Depression on the young killers and the lawmen who faced them down.
£10.44
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Cowboy Wild
Book SynopsisLove it or hate it, the Calgary Stampede is a place where myth, history and spectacle collide. 100 years after an American vaudeville cowboy first dreamed it up, the Stampede remains an unrivalled homage to the West. Cowboy Wild was more than a decade in the making. Photographer David Campion roamed the world''s biggest Wild West show and brought back a collection of images that speak to our fascination with the cowboy. With wry humour, these photographs pull back the curtain and probe the contradictions that lie at the heart of a myth that transforms history into a story about the triumph of man over nature, nostalgically regretted even as it is celebrated. As the Stampede marks its 100th anniversary, the time is ripe for a book that goes beyond the hype. In the accompanying essay, writer Sandra Shields uses the prism of the Stampede to offer a meditation on the meaning of the West and its enduring hold on our collective imagination.
£32.79
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Treasure Under the Tundra: Canada's Arctic
Book SynopsisIt is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the awesome and seductive radiance of the northern lights. Yet until 1991, no one thought diamonds could even be found in Canada--no one except geologists Chuck Fipke and Stu Blusson, who uncovered diamond-rich kimberlite in the Barrens at Point Lake in the Northwest Territories. Their spectacular discovery caused great excitement in international diamond circles and sparked the largest claim-staking rush in Canada since the 1896 Klondike gold rush. The two geologists sank their lives and savings into their belief that they''d find diamonds in the Barrens, and the story of their quest is a dramatic tale of perseverance in the face of immense odds.
£10.44
NeWest Press Herbert Has Lots for a Buck: How 12 Small Prairie
Book SynopsisCanada in the twenty-first century is a place of growth and expansion. Cities like Vancouver and Toronto have become word class destinations for business and tourism. Meanwhile, smaller, less prominent communities face changes of different sorts, as residents depart for the opportunities present in our country''s largest cities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Canada''s prairie provinces.Despite changes in population and the loss of such essential services as schools, post offices, and grain elevators, many of Canada''s oldest prairie communities-communities like Craik and Meacham in Saskatchewan, and Vulcan in Alberta-have defied the odds, facing death only to rise again.In Herbert Has Lots for a Buck, Elizabeth McLachlan investigates how these communities have capitalized on green initiatives, the growing influence of local artists, and even an uncanny connection to one of Star Trek''s most famous icons to not only survive beyond expectations, but thrive.
£14.39
Consumer Publications, LLC Methodists & Moonshiners: Another Prohibition Expedition Through the South ...with Cocktail Recipes
£21.60
Museum Tusculanum Press Mondegruppen: Kampen om kunsten og socialismen i
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Museum Tusculanum Press Historiography At the Court of Christian Iv
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£36.54
University Press of Southern Denmark Regional Integration in Early Modern Scandinavia
Book SynopsisIn the Nordic countries regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time. The differences in voting behaviour, language, religious views, social structure and attitudes between districts, regions, and provinces within each country are often striking. In addition to these internal regions, there are also greater, transnational regions, cutting across state and national boundaries, and incorporating parts of several present-day states. The heterogeneous body of recent and ongoing research in regional history provides the foundation and raison d''être of the present volume. The editors have brought together a number of the most active and experienced practitioners in this field, inviting them to present some of the most interesting results from their own research and readings in regional history, in a form accessible also to a non-Nordic readership. We decided to concentrate on the early modern period, in a wide sense, ranging from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. This is both the period which seems to be best covered by research and publications, and, even more important, it is a crucial period in the integration of the Nordic regions into wider economic, cultural and political units and networks nationally and internationally: the nation-state, the modern world economy, even civilisation itself!
£25.20
Midsea Books Ltd,Malta Malta’s Armed Forces: Its Journey: 2022
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£31.50
Midsea Books Ltd,Malta 1919 Consequences of Imperial Conceit:: Four Case
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£51.00
HarperCollins American Passage The History of Ellis Island
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HarperCollins Shot All to Hell Jesse James the Northfield Raid and the Wild Wests Greatest Escape
Trade Review"Rollicking. ... Equal parts violent melodrama and meticulous procedural... with enough bloody action to engage readers enthralled by tales of good versus evil." -- New York Times Book Review "Superb. ... Mr. Gardner earns an A+ for his research and an A++ for his writing. -- New York Journal of Books "An elegant narrative that's as entertaining as it is historically accurate... A must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "Action packed...A gripping read and probably tells all there is to tell about a legendary group of psychopaths." -- Kirkus "[This] bullet-by-bullet account... sheds considerable light on a neglected aspect of the gang's life of crime... well done." -- Booklist "Rewarding. ... Gardner's re-creation of the Northfield Raid... orchestrates the often-unwieldy particulars of the event with considerable virtuosity. ... It would be hard to imagine a more thorough account." -- Washington Post
£14.30
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Undefeated Inside the Miami Dolphins Perfect
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HarperCollins A Short History of Reconstruction Updated Edition
Book SynopsisFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves’ searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and one committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.This “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) remains the standard work on the wrenching p
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Queen of All Mayhem
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£19.24
Penguin Publishing Group Honor Killing
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£16.67
Penguin Publishing Group More Than Freedom Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic 18291889
Book SynopsisA major new account of the Northern movement to establish African Americans as full citizens before, during, and after the Civil WarIn More Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz offers a bold rethinking of the Civil War era. Kantrowitz show how the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign by African Americans to claim full citizenship and to remake the white republic into a place where they could belong. More Than Freedom chronicles this epic struggle through the lives of black and white abolitionists in and around Boston, including Frederick Douglass, Senator Charles Sumner, and lesser known but equally important figures. Their bold actions helped bring about the Civil War, set the stage for Reconstruction, and left the nation forever altered.
£23.62
Penguin Putnam Inc Bunker Hill A City A Siege A Revolution The
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£16.15
Oxford University Press A Voice from the South
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays (1891) is an unparalleled statement of black feminist thought in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the original texts of the black feminist movement. Cooper came of age in a period of conservatism in the black community, a time when Afro-American intellectual and political ideas were dominated by men. At the heart of her work is a belief that the status of black women, the most oppressed group of all, is the only true measure of collective racial progress.Trade ReviewAn excellent book....Highly complex but not complicated. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University *A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University *So glad to have this important text available for my course. * Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins College *A brilliant example of how to discuss together the issues of both gender and race, one of the first in US American discourse to so approach such matters. * Dr. Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska *
£99.75
Oxford University Press Inc Under Western Skies
Book SynopsisFor decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism - the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the ''new western history'', an approach that gives a central role to the environment, native peoples, and the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Foremost among these historians is Donald Worster.In Worster''s writings, the western past emerges not as a march of Manifest Destiny but rather as an unfolding relationship between humankind and nature.In Under Western Skies, Worster provides an eloquent introduction to the changing traditions of western historical writing and then demonstrates his own approach through fascinating case studies. For example, he takes a hard look at the struggle by the Lakota to regain ownership of the Black Hills, examining not only the legal history of treaties and court cases but also the importance of the Black HillTrade Review"A thoughtful, sensible collection...Worster reminds us that unlimited freedom and power are dangerous goals; both must be limited if the West's delicately balanced ecology is to endure."--Publishers Weekly "Donald Worster is the dean of American environmental historians and one of our leading interpreters of the American West. He writes with the passion of a native son and offers perspectives that are as profound as they are provocative on the major environmental questions that have shaped the region's past and will define its future. Under Western Skies is a major contribution by a major scholar."--William Cronon, Yale University "Donald Worster's honesty, critical intelligence, and talent for writing will prove to be three of the American West's most valuable resources in the late twentieth century. If Americans read this book and take it seriously, our prospects for living wisely and responsibly in this region will instantly brighten."--Patricia Nelson Limerick, author of The Legacy of Conquest "Donald Worster is a brilliant social historian. Under Western Skies is insightful, incisive, useful, and necessary. And a terrific read--vivid and compelling."--William Kittredge "Worster writes clearly and with passion...He provides food for thought about the West's past and future."--Gateway Heritage "No one is a more powerful spokesman for the New Western History than Donald Worster, and no western historian is a better storyteller. He writes with passion and eloquence, with deep concern for the future of the region as well as its past. Readers will find these essays thoughtful, stimulating, and contentious."--Great Plains Quarterly "A probing set of essays of particular interest to graduate students because Worster poses research questions and describes patterns of previously published research. These essays never fail to meet Worster's previously established high standards for research and writing."--Barbara Handy-Marchello, University of North Dakota "It's a case of man and mountain matching one another: Donald Worster is one of the finest American historians of his generation, and John Wesley Powell one of the most impressive Americans of his time. This book is very readable, very thorough, and very welcome."--Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove, Crazy Horse and Roads
£17.99
Hachette Books Tearing Down the Orange Curtain
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Back Bay Books The Witches
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Not Stated This Is the Fire
Book SynopsisIn this 'vital book for these times' (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them.Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.
£999.99
Little, Brown & Company The Witches
£41.57
Little, Brown & Company Manchester
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Random House USA Inc America the Philosophical
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Lulu.com The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 185152
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Lulu.com The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 185152 A Book of Gold Rush History and Stories Taken From The Pioneer Magazine
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Lulu.com A Trip To the Gallows
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Lulu.com The White Indian Boy The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones
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Lulu.com The White Indian Boy The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Pine Barrens
Book SynopsisMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the Pineys, are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the peopleand their distinctive folklorewho call it
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WW Norton & Co The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Suspenseful, superbly informative, crucial." -- Louise Erdrich"Fascinating and brilliant… Egan’s narrative often moves like a thriller." -- Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson - Los Angeles Review of Books"Easy to read, offering well-paced, intellectually stimulating arguments, bolstered by well-researched and captivating narratives." -- Lekelia Danielle Jenkins - Science"Dan Egan has done more than any other journalist in America to chronicle the decline of this once-great ecosystem." -- Judges’ citation, Grantham Award of Special Merit for Environmental Beat Reporting"A compelling chronicle of the many, many (many) man-caused hazards that have threatened the largest source of accessible freshwater in the world." -- Susan Glaser - Cleveland Plain Dealer"A marvelous work of nonfiction, which tells the story of humanity’s interference with the natural workings of the world’s largest unfrozen freshwater system." -- Anne Moore - Crain’s Chicago Business"Important.… Egan’s book serves as a reminder that the ecological universe we inhabit is vastly connected and cannot be easily mended by humility and good intentions." -- Meghan O’Gieblyn - Boston Review"Egan’s knowledge, both deep and wide, comes through on every page, and his clear writing turns what could be confusing or tedious material into a riveting story." -- Margaret Quamme - Columbus Dispatch"Brings the Great Lakes’ decline—and moments of rebirth—to life.… Firsthand tales from the people directly involved in the Great Lakes’ unfolding ecological drama drive Egan’s brisk narrative forward." -- Danielle S. Furlich - Nature Conservancy magazine"A literary clarion call.… Egan’s narrative reflects a nuanced understanding of history and science, which is matched by his keen perceptions about public policy." -- National Book Review"This book feels urgent to policymakers and laypersons alike." -- Kerri Arsenault - Literary Hub
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