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  • Rambles around Old Boston

    by Edwin Monroe Bacon ...
    The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary days. All sorts of odd corners are portrayed, besides the well-known landmarks, without which no book on Boston would be complete. Some idea ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manual of Ship Subsidies

    An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations

    by Edwin Monroe Bacon ...
    Manual of Ship Subsidies: An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations is a comprehensive and meticulously researched work by Edwin M. Bacon, offering an in-depth exploration of the development, implementation, and impact of ship subsidy systems across the globe. This authoritative volume traces the evolution of government support for merchant shipping from ancient times through the early ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    by Shannon Ryan ...
    The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from ... Read more

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  • Blood on the River

    A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

    by Marjoleine Kars ...
    Winner of the Cundill History PrizeWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the AmericasNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of history, capturing both ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Troubled Heart of Africa

    A History of the Congo

    by Robert B. Edgerton ...
    "This book serves as a basic primer on how one of the world's most mineral-rich countries was turned into one of its greatest tragedies." - Publishers WeeklyWritten over a century ago, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to dominate our vision of the Congo, unlikely as it might seem that a late-Victorian novella could encapsulate a country roughly equal in size to the United States east of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Merchant Navy

    by Richard Woodman ...
    Series Book 736 - Shire Library
    At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type of freight from and to all four corners of the globe – and in times of crisis the merchant fleet has also offered military assistance. In fact, the merchant convoys and armed cruisers that defied the German blockades to supply Britain in the First World War were so pivotal that they were recognised as ... Read more

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  • The Guyana Story

    From Earliest Times to Independence

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    The Guyana StoryFrom Earliest Times to Independence traces the countrys history from thousands of years ago when the first Amerindian groups began to settle on the Guyana territory. It examines the period of early European exploration leading to Dutch colonization, the forcible introduction of African slaves to work on cotton and sugar plantations, the effects of European wars, and the final ... Read more

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  • A Pipeline Runs Through It

    The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

    by Keith Fisher ...
    'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael KlarePetroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • The Complete Concise History of the Slave Trade

    by Olayanju Olajide ...
    This book is written mainly from my experience since my arrival in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. I came to the UK before I came in contact with any Afro American or Caribbean. In Nigeria I know some people whose parents originally returned to Nigeria from Brazil and Cuba. The names of these great people are household names in Nigeria and particularly in Lagos. The more I stay in the UK ... Read more

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  • Mining in World History

    by Martin Lynch ...
    Series series Globalities
    Mining in World History deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present day, drawing out, in an engaging and fast-paced fashion, the interplay of personalities, politics and technology which have together shaped the metallurgical industries over the last 500 years.Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before the year 1453, of a revolutionary technique ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Redpath

    The History of a Sugar House

    by Richard Feltoe ...
    Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal’s growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic John Redpath, by then a self-made millionaire in his late fifties, launched a new career as an ... Read more

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  • Blood on the River

    A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

    by Marjoleine Kars ...
    Winner of the Cundill History PrizeWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the AmericasNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of history, capturing both ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus