Books on Topic: 'Politics'

For Canada , Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage tha...

Milne created the story to contain believable, three-dimensional characters, rather than the stereotypes which will satisfy children. Hence the book i...

It is set in a future society where the government, led by the Party and its enigmatic leader Big Brother, controls every aspect of people's lives and...

The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the...

Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production is a critical analysis of the political economy or the capitalist system. In this 3...

Barchester Towers is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longmans in 1857. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire...

During the period of debate over the ratification of the Constitution, numerous independent local speeches and articles were published all across the...

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

The book covers artistic and literary development, as well as politics and war, and its field of view includes western Asia Minor, the Agean archipela...

A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great was first published in 1900. It went on to become a standard text in many colleges and was use...

This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal people. Th...

Jacques Cartier grew up as a sailor, married well and became an agent of exploration for King Francis I of France. In April, 1534, he sailed for the N...

These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, follows the Je...

It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed, was she b...

Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat that had h...

The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates....

Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was...

The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or maritime...

Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in France an...

Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a greater w...

Carleton’s first eight years as governor of Canada were almost entirely occupied with civil administration. The next four were equally occupied with w...

Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the Crown of E...

This is the history of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and his ultimate defeat.

'Thayendanegea!' The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name of the Mohawks meaning two sticks of wood bound together, a si...