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The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and The Birth of Modern Life

“Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses…/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Anyone who has come within sight of the Statue of Liberty cannot but be ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: History

Empires at War: The Seven Years’ War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763

By William Fowler

Empires at War does not fit in the modern trend toward creative non-fiction history books. William Fowler, the American author of numerous books on 18th- and 19th-century U.S. naval history, writes solidly within the realm ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National Treasures: 1939-1961: A Polish-Canadian Story

By Gordon Swoger

In 1939, with the terrifying certainty of a Nazi invasion mere weeks away, the Polish government authorized the immediate evacuation of its priceless national treasures, including, most symbolically, the 14th-century coronation sword known as Szcerbiec. ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ An Irish History of Civilization: Volume One

By Don Akenson

One can be forgiven for misreading the title. This new book (actually a whopping two-volume, 1,500-page set) from writer and Queen’s professor Don Akenson (whose previous titles include such impressive pieces of scholarship and surprise ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ An Irish History of Civilization: Volume Two

By Don Akenson

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

Canadians in the Civil War

By Claire Hoy

The role of Canada and Canadians in the American Civil War has long deserved a higher profile in the historical literature. Veteran journalist and author Claire Hoy’s new book is an attempt to rectify that.Between ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist

By Jessica Warner

Toronto-based academic and writer Jessica Warner has written a fine story about an eccentric subject: an unsuccessful anti-British insurgent during the American Revolution. John Aitken, aka John the Painter, was born the son of a ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: History

It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journals of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919

By Bruce Cane

The Western Front of the First World War consumed individuality as thoroughly as it consumed individuals. As Canadians, our folk-memory of the war is of the quick and the dead indistinguishable from the mud. In ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

By Dan Bortolotti

It would be difficult to write a dull book about Doctors Without Borders, the renowned international medical relief organization that won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace. Hope in Hell doesn’t disappoint, providing many a ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines

By Michael Riordon

An Unauthorized Biography of the World is a chronicle of that long, varied front line of communities using oral history to fight against marginalization and oppression, to give themselves a voice in the face of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History