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  • Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada

    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Indelible Ink

    The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

    "Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of ... Read more

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  • Inventing the People

    "The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington PostThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    **The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning classic.“One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book.” —New York Times Book Review**“[This book] influenced an entire generation of historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution.” —Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street JournalAwarded both the Pulitzer and the ... Read more

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  • The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays

    Renowned steel magnate and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, immigrated to America from Scotland as a boy in 1848, and at the age of thirteen began his first job as a bobbin boy, earning 1.20 a week. By the 1870s, the successful entrepreneur had founded the Carnegie Steel Company, later U.S. Steel, which would eventually establish Carnegie as the second wealthiest man in history, after John D. ... Read more

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  • The Origins of American Politics

    "An astonishing range of reading in contemporary tracts and modern authorities is manifest, and many aspects of British and colonial affairs are illuminated. As a political analysis this very important contribution will be hard to refute...."—Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly"He produces historical analysis which is as revealing to the political scientist or sociologist as to the ... Read more

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  • The History of Education in Ghana

    From the Earliest Times to the Declaration of Independance

    by C.K. Graham ...
    Published in the year 1971, The History of Education in Ghana is a valuable contribution to the field of History. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

    by Eric Williams ...
    Series series World Social Change
    In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Island in an Empire

    Education, Religion, and Social Life in Newfoundland, 1800-1855

    The first half of the nineteenth century brought two major revolution, the British Industrial Revolution and the French political revolution, which devastatingly heralded the modern world. In Newfoundland, an important strategic outpost island within the powerful British Empire, the period brought the start of religious, educational, and class identifications and divisions, particularly in the ... Read more

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  • The Friends of Liberty

    The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The French Revolution
    This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Land Policies of Upper Canada

    Series series Heritage
    From 1763 to 1867 the land system of Upper Canada was one of the most important questions in the development of the new country. This detailed study of the subject examines Great Britain's plans for Canada after the conquest, the problems created by the royal "promise" of land to the loyalists, Lord Durham's Report, and the failure of the land policies to reach their economic and political ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Reaction and Reconstruction in English Politics, 1832–1852

    by Norman Gash ...
    'It is a melancholy thought that as soon as reforms are put into practice, disillusionment enters the political scene...'Norman Gash's Ford Lectures, originally delivered at Oxford in 1964, address an era of reform that followed the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, Catholic Emancipation in 1829, and the Reform Act of 1832. The history of this period has often focused on the ... Read more

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