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W. W. Norton & Company BOOK: 5 cm x 7.5 cm Chunk Missing From Top Corner of 2 Pages Following Index (Blank Pages); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: List of Maps; Preface 1 The Collision of Cultures 2 England and Her Colonies 3 Colonial Ways of Life 4 The Imperial Perspective 5 From Empire to Independence 6 The American Revolution 7 Shaping a Federal Union 8 The Federalists: Washington and Adams 9 Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison 10 Nationalism and Sectionalism 11 The Jacksonian Impulse 12 The Dynamics of Growth 13 An American Renaissance: Romanticism and Reform 14 Manifest Destiny 15 The Old South: An American Tragedy 16 The Crisis of Union 17 The War of the Union 18 Reconstruction: North and South 19 New Frontiers: South and West 20 The Rise of Big Business 21 The Emergence of Modern America 22 Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt 23 The Course of… Read More

New York: A Mentor Book - The New American Library, Inc. Times Mirror Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: The Declaration of Independence; The Constitution; Washington's Farewell Address; Thoreau's Civil Disobedience; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; William James' Pragmatism; Wendell Wilkie's One World; Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance; John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address. From the Mayflower Compact of 1620 to President Johnson's 1965 Address on Voting Rights, here are documents that will endure as long as our nation exists. The eighty-three selections in this volume span the spectrum of American political, economic and cultural history as it was made, and as it was lived. All are put in clear perspective as they are analyzed by distinguished historians. Originally published in two volumes by the University of Chicago Press, this unique and essential… Read More

New York: The Free Press - Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Slice Cut Through Cover Into First Page; Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia. BOOK NUMBER: 93239. ALSO KNOWN AS: Originally Published as Gentlemen Freeholders. CONTENTS: 1 Behind the Virginia Dynasty 2 Tumults and Riots 3 The Vulgar Herd 4 Swilling the Planters with Bumbo 5 Gentlemen of Long-Tailed Families 6 County Oligarchies 7 The House of Burgesses 8 The Pathway to Power 9 The Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth; Appendices; Bibliographical Note; References; Index. SYNOPSIS: Virginia produced four men - Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe - who provided leadership for the first thirty years of our nation's life. In this perceptive and dramatic history, Professor Sydnor has examined the social climate in which these men were trained and the political practices… Read More

New York: Atheneum House, Inc., 1968. BOOK: Front Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Sticker; Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. ALSO KNOWN AS: Le Defi Americain. WITH A FOREWORD BY: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY: Ronald Steel. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE THE ASSAULT ON EUROPE; I The Sweetest Deal; II Not a Question of Money; III The Post-Industrial Society; IV The Power to Create; PART TWO AMERICA'S ARSENAL; V The American Colossus; VI The Growth Spiral; VII The Denison Report; VIII McNamara on the "Gap"; IX America in 1980; X The World of Computers; PART THREE EUROPE IN CONFUSION; XI State of the Union; XII The Concorde Affair; XIII The Space Adventure; XIV Battle of the Computers; XV The French Effort; PART FOUR COUNTERATTACK; XVI Back to the Wall; XVII Bigger Business; XVIII Major Operations; XIX A Minimum of Federalism; XX Heart of the Matter; PART FIVE THE POLITICAL… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing, Due to Age, Sun Exposure. SUB-TITLE: A Modern Reader. CONTENTS: PART I: SLAVERY AND THE AMERICAN IDEA The Founding Fathers and Slavery - by William W. Freehling; The Constitution and the Slave Trade - by David Brion Davis; Slavery and Race: The Southern Dilemma - by George M. Fredrickson; PART II: SLAVES AND MASTERS To Make Them Stand in Fear - by Kenneth M. Stampp; Punishment and Rewards - by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman; Property Rights in Man - by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman; Slave Work Habits and the Protestant Ethic - by Herbert G. Gutman; PART III: SLAVE CULTURE The Gospel in the Quarters - by Eugene D. Genovese; Slave Songs and Slave Consciousness - by Lawrence W. Levine; Because She Was My cousin - by Herbert G. Gutman; PART… Read More

Markham: A Penguin Books Canada Ltd/McClelland and Stewart Book, 1989. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: In The Arctic Grail, Pierre Berton follows the paths forged by a handful of stubborn explorers, who risked life and limb in their quest to find the Northwest Passage. This quest is peopled with larger-than-life adventurers and with the remarkable Inuit, without whom Arctic exploration would not have been possible. Pierre Berton was born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He moved to Toronto in 1947 and at the age of 31 was named managing editor of Maclean's magazine. He was an associate editor and columnist at the Toronto Star from 1958 to 1962 and has written and hosted several national television programs. He is the author of thirty-four books and has received three Governor General's… Read More

Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), 1999. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. ALSO KNOWN AS: Issued also in French under title: Si je me souviens bien As I recall. WITH: John Meisel; Guy Rocher; Arthur Silver. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Note on Illustrations; Table of Contents; General Introduction; CHAPTER 1 THE FIRST STEPS - Arthur Silver; Introduction - by John Meisel; Introduction - by Guy Rocher; The Conquest (1760); The Rebellion of 1837-1838; The Union of the Canadas (1840); Confederation (1867); The Hanging of Louis Riel (1885); The Minority Rights Disputes (1871-1916); Imperialism and World War (1884-1917); CHAPTER 2 THE MAKING OF THE WELFARE STATE - Alain Desruisseaux and Sarah Fortin; Introduction - by John Meisel; Introduction - by Guy Rocher; Unemployment Insurance (1940); Tax Rental Agreements (1947-1954); Federal Grants to Universities (1951); Canada and Quebec… Read More

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press in association with the UBC Museum of Anthropology Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: A Declaration of the First Nations was a landmark document in the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada. Adopted by Canadian Indian chiefs in 1981, it asserted their rights as sovereign peoples to self-government and self-determination in their tribal lands. Over 200 years lay between the Declaration and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which provided the basis for Imperial and, later, Canadian Indian policy. As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows focuses on Canadian native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis. This book is the first publication in The Nakoda Institute Occasional Papers series. It consists of original papers given at a Native Studies… Read More

Toronto: A Mentor Book - The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1967. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A lively survey - social and political - of the development of an empire, based upon historical and military accounts of the time. SUB-TITLE: A History of Early Rome. BOOK NUMBER: MQ686. CONTENTS: Introduction; Prologue: A Pride of Empires; Part I: Portend in the West; I. The Fledgling State; II. Growing Pains; III. Expansion and Its Consequences; Part II: Arma Virumque Cano; IV. Servants of the Eagles; V. Aftermath of Victory; VI. A House Divided; VII. Creation of a Precedent; VIII. The Rise of Pompey; IX. Progress of a Popular Idol; X. The Crucible of Power; XI. "The Die Is Cast"; XII. Victory at Pharsalus; Epilogue: Pax Romana; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: CAESAR TO ROMULUS This is a dynamic history of Rome… Read More

Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1962. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Lightly Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: With the publication of Blazing the Old Cattle Trail, author Grant MacEwan has made an important contribution to the preservation of the history of the Old West. As in the case of Fifty Mighty Men published by Modern Press in 1957, many of the people and the episodes in Blazing the Old Cattle Trail have not existed in written records, but have been known largely as the folklore of the districts concerned. Grant MacEwan has done an admirable job of research in getting these gripping stories of pioneer hardship and ingenuity and courage in shape to publish. The series was published originally in weekly instalments in The Western Producer. Shortly after the first few episodes appeared, reader response was such that… Read More

New York: A Dell Book - Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Sweeping Nationwide #1 Bestseller! SUB-TITLE: The Fall of Richard Nixon. CONTENTS: 1: Let Justice Be Done 2: The Politics of Manipulation 3: Poor Richard: How Things Work 4: The Team: From Politics to Power 5: The White House of Richard Nixon: From Style to Heresy 6: The Underground: From Crime to Conspiracy 7: Victory 1972: Design for Control 8: The Tapes: A Tour Inside the Mind of Richard Nixon 9: The Systems Respond: Spring 1973 10: Firestorm: Fall 1973 11: The Question Period: Winter-Spring 1974 12: Judgment: Summer 1974 13: Breach of Faith; Appendix A: The Articles of Impeachment; Appendix B: Richard Nixon's Farewell Statement (August 8, 1974); Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: Over 25 Weeks On The New York Times Bestseller List. THE… Read More

Toronto: W. J. Gage & Co., Limited BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: None. SUB-TITLE: A Story of Social Development.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1982. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: 1. Canada: The Natural Background; 2. Discovery and Settlement, 1492-1672; 3. National Rivalries and Conflicts, 1672-1763; 4. The Formative Years, 1760-1791; 5. Expansion and Adjustment, 1791-1818; 6. British North America, 1815-1850; 7. The Struggle for Confederation, 1843-1867; 8. The Dominion of Canada, 1867-1873; 9. Early National Development; 10. The Age of Laurier, 1896-1911; 11. The Test of War, 1914-1918; 12. The Post-War Years, 1919-1929; 13. Through the Great Depression, 1929-1939; 14. The Second World War, 1939-1945; 15. Post-War Canada: Economic and Social; 16. Post-War Canada: Politics; Appendix; Index.. Second Edition 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Robert Kunz, C. C. J. Bond and Marion Paton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1976. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: 1. Canada: The Natural Background; 2. Discovery and Settlement, 1492-1672; 3. National Rivalries and Conflicts, 1672-1763; 4. The Formative Years, 1760-1791; 5. Expansion and Adjustment, 1791-1818; 6. British North America, 1815-1850; 7. The Struggle for Confederation, 1843-1867; 8. The Dominion of Canada, 1867-1873; 9. Early National Development; 10. The Age of Laurier, 1896-1911; 11. The Test of War, 1914-1918; 12. The Post-War Years, 1919-1929; 13. Through the Great Depression, 1929-1939; 14. The Second World War, 1939-1945; 15. Post-War Canada: Economic and Social; 16. Post-War Canada: Politics; Appendix; Index.. Second Edition 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Robert Kunz, C. C. J. Bond and Marion Paton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ottawa: The Director of Public Information Under Authority of the Minister of National War Services, 1941. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Covers, Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: A Primer of Canadian National Unity. MOVIE/RADIO TIE-IN: The illustrations are from the motion picture Peoples of Canada, a joint production of the Director of Public Information and the National Film Board. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sponsored a series of radio broadcasts called Canadians All during the spring of 1941. ISSUED BY: The Director of Public Information Ottawa. UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE: Minister of National War Services. EXCERPT: FOREWORD Before the Nazi attacks with military strength, he attempts to undermine the moral and physical resistance of his victim nation by termite tactics. Intrinsically, a nation like Canada, whose population comprises many races and creeds, is perfect ground for the employment of Nazi underground warfare. Accordingly, it is… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: a saga of Canadian inspiration. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1: The Frontiersmen (Heroes who broke barriers) 2: The Flyers (Heroes of the high skies) 3: The Tycoons (The hero as a winner) 4: The Entertainers (Heroes of stage and screen) 5: The Dedicated (The hero with a conscience) 6: The Writers (Heroes of the fourth estate); Index; Picture Credits, Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: In every struggle, in answer to every challenge, individuals will rise to tower above their contemporaries, who with their deeds of daring will shape and reshape the destiny of their nation, and sometimes the world. They are The Heroes. The names of the great international heroes spring easily to mind . . . Churchill, Schwietzer, Napoleon . . . but Canada, too, has had more than its share of… Read More

Toronto: The Canadian Centennial Publishing Co., Ltd. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: A Century of Challenge. TEXT FOR PICTURE ALBUMS BY: Pierre Berton and Ken Lefolii. CONTENTS: Prologue; Who and what we are; 1867-1914; 1 The birth of a nation like no other; Life in the Confederation years; 2 Winning the western empire; Riel: prairie prophet; 3 The hard path to Canadianism; The immigrants; 1914-1945; 4 The legacy of Flanders Fields; The Great War; 5 How the sun set on British North America; The age of flight begins; 6 The scars of a dishonest decade; The unknown Canadian; 7 Total war and the home front; Lampooning Uncle Sam; 1945-1967; 8 A new Canada in a changed world; Boom!; 9 Opening the second frontier; The new cities; 10 Politics for the second century; Epilogue; The quest for the peaceable kingdom; Index.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

The Canadian Centennial Publishing Company, Limited BOOK: Corners Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scratched; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A portable gallery of those peculiar views and objects that identify Canada to us, and stand for Canada in the eyes of outlanders everywhere. SUB-TITLE: A Century of Sights and Styles. COVER: Ice Fishing Huts on Lake Simcoe, Ont. CONTENTS: The Look That Could Only Happen Here; Skylines; Shapes; Institutions; Heroes; Clothes; Animals; The Native Look; The Arctic; The Land; Trademarks; The Image; The Lost Look and The Next Look. EXCERPT: The Look that could only happen here. This book was not so much written as collected, between 1964 and 1966. Looking for pictures to illustrate the first seven volumes of this library, I searched most of the public collections in Canada and a surprising - to me, at least - number of excellent private… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited BOOK: Gouges on Front Cover; Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing; Flaps Laid In. SUB-TITLE: A Pictorial Record. CONTENTS: Introduction; Tomorrow's World; 1/At the centre of the stage; How the world saw the fair; 2/The builders who dared; Architecture takes a giant stride; 3/Biggest bubble in the world; That great American dome; 4/A design for delight; Reshaping the environment; 5/A new way of seeing; Cine Expo; 6/An argument in concrete; Habitat; 7/The medium was the message; The bewitching wonderland of the Czechs; 8/Education and experience; The new look of learning; 9/Self-portraits: true and false; The image makers; 10/Man and his art; Sculpture to live with. SYNOPSIS: All the fun of the fair . . . The fifty millions who went to Expo ate 11,339,759 hot dogs - enough, someone calculated, to stretch from Montreal to Regina. The grins on the faces of the… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited BOOK: Light Residue to Front, Rear Free Endpapers Where Jacket Was Once Taped On; Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Spiritual Development of a Nation. CONTENTS: Prologue: William Kilbourn; THE PAST - by William Kilbourn; Martyrdom and mysticism - the inspiration of New France; The Protestants arrive - the challenge of the frontier; The Churches and Confederation; Puritan vs. devil - even the violin was a vice; "So long, it's been good to know you"; THE PRESENT - by A. C. Forrest; The influence of affluence - a time for questioning; A summary: Sixteen sects in six major leagues; The Roman renewal - "Canadian Catholics are away ahead"; Ubiquitous United - "Just like General Motors"; A changing church for "the nicest people in town"; Pacifists and protesters - in the news and… Read More