Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body.
The first English-language volume on religion in contemporary Quebec.
Fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic chronicle of civilization through Irish eyes. This book deals with the Irish at home and abroad, the great and the small, the noble and the depraved, the wise and the foolish.
Focusing on the definition of landscapes in relation to the concepts of nature, environment, territory, and man-made settings such as gardens and cities, this book examines the... Læs mere
A new view of frontier justice in western Canada's first major settlement through the eyes of its courts and witnesses.
By including relevant correspondence to and from expedition members, this title captures the original words of the participants, offering insights into the character of both Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson and making clear what really happened on this successful expedition.