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We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where.

What's white, costs billions of dollars, and embodies the American dream?

Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment?

This exciting new edition of A History of Ancient Greece in its Mediterranean
Context has been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover the development of

Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty!

For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history.

This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious.

The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived.

In the early 20th century the Canadian North was a mystery, but the Canadian military stepped in, and this book explores its historic activities in Canada’s Arctic.

Here is one of the most unique and fascinating food histories in the world, exploring the diverse culinary history of Canada.

Follow George Fetherling as he travels through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia looking for any remaining traces of the Indochina that was.

The Canadian National Exhibition grounds are so richly steeped in history that there are spirits that dwell there who like to come out and play and work.

During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty’s name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky.

Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915.