History

In many western countries, judicial decisions are based on black letter law text-based, well-established law. Within this tradition, testimony bas...

A GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking ...

Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting...

In Wife to Widow, award-winning historian Bettina Bradbury explores the little-studied phenomenon of the transition from wife to widowhood to offer...

Hundreds of commissions of inquiry have been struck in Canada since before Confederation, but many of their recommendations have never been impleme...

'We need this book' SIMON REEVE'Illuminating' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy is Africa often perceived as a single country? What role did African soldiers play...

Much attention has been paid to race in the Canadian metropolis, but how are the workings of whiteness manifested in the rural-urban? White Space a...

The Banff School opened its doors in 1933 by offering a summer drama course. Since then, it has grown into a renowned cultural destination, today k...

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec took centre stage in the national ...

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynas...

In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru crossed oceans and jurisdictions to arrive at the west coast of Canada. Canadian officials, calling on legislative ac...

For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization across the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. As co...

In Dionysius and the City of Rome: Portraits of Founders in the Roman Antiquities, Beatrice Poletti examines Dionysius of Halicarnassus description...

Coming to Buffalo as a young man with a background as an itinerant printers apprentice, newspaper reporter, and popular lecturer, Twain began his b...

What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many peopl...

Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State College during the civil rights eraTra...

In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of cli...

The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world Parthian and Persian and how they rose and eventu...