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  • Breaking the Silence

    One Man's Quest to Find the Truth About One of the Most Horrific Series of Sex Abuse Cases in Ireland

    by Martin Ridge, Gerard Cunningham ...
    Assigned to a quiet corner of Ireland's most remote county, Martin Ridge was heading for retirement after a long career with An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. All that changed when a call from a local priest set in motion what would become the most horrific sex abuse investigation the island had ever known. At Christmas 1997 a local priest Fr Eugene Greene reported to the Gardaí that a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frederick Jackson Turner

    Wisconsin’s Historian of the Frontier

    by Martin Ridge ...
    This book contains four essays by and about Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), the Wisconsin-born historian whose ideas and writings have had such a profound impact upon the way Americans view their past, and their place in the world. It is a book not only for the scholar and teacher (who will find it both useful and incisive), but also for the mythic "general reader" who wants to broaden and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The American West

    The Reader

    Edited by Walter Nugent, Martin Ridge ...
    "Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." —Nebraska HistoryDesigned for survey courses—yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion—these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • The Rediscovery of America

    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    by Ned Blackhawk Y ...
    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    **A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, ... Read more

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  • North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue;Michael D. Green ...
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Conquest

    The Unbroken Past of the American West

    by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Ph.D. ...
    "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Indian Nations of Wisconsin

    Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition

    by Patty Loew ...
    From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican, Ho-Chunk, and Brothertown Indians. Author Patty Loew focuses on ... Read more

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  • North American Indians

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • They Stole our World: How Native Americans were Treated from Early Colonial Times Onward

    History and Historical Fiction, #22

    by Jason Wallace ...
    Series Book 22 - History and Historical Fiction
    From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions to society have been monumental and immeasurable, but their rewards have been few and almost ... Read more

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  • Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986

    by David Montejano ...
    "A benchmark publication . . . A meticulously documented work that provides an alternative interpretation and revisionist view of Mexican-Anglo relations." – IMR ( International Migration Review)Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American HistoriansAmerican Historical Association, Pacific Branch Book AwardTexas Institute of Letters Friends of The Dallas Public Library A... ... Read more

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