History of Other Lands

Until now, Canada's claim to the frozen expanses of the Arctic has gone largely unchallenged. No longer. Suddenly our great white North is on every...

Maria Da Silva and Andrew Hind deliver another volume of enchanting, eerie tales to keep you occupied at the cottage this summer. Using their power...

The eighteen articles selected for this third volume of the History of the Prairie West series all focus on the agricultural history of the Canadia...

In 2011, the University of Regina began celebrating an important milestone--the centennial of Regina College, the Methodist high school that was th...

Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega Kinna Nakoda Oyate (Carry the Kettle Nakod...

Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega Kinna Nakoda Oyate (Carry the Kettle Nakod...

There is no comprehensive study of the Canadian reaction to the famine in the English or Ukrainian language, [...] so this is a major contribution....

In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it Crocker Land. ...

With the surprise Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of ...

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia an...

From a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, a riveting account of the great expeditions of Antarctica's Heroic Age that restores their status as grand ...

This beautifully written narrative history paints a magnificent picture of the second largest nation on earth. Canada, with its overarching geograp...

HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Arg...

Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twen...

Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell offers a comprehensive account of the cultural history of the Cape Farewell area in the 19th century. The domi...

In 2005 the Danish government obliged the wish of the Greenlandic Home Rule to commission a historical report on the circumstances surrounding the ...

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a suspenseful (WSJ) and adrenaline-fueled (Outside) entwined n...