This book details the struggles of the over 500 European women who travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940 to set up a home in the harsh environment. The geography also forced them to adjust they way they worked. For instance, letters and reports of the …
"'A strange and gripping tragedy' is how Brian Moore has described the seventeenth-century confrontation of Europeans and Amerindians in his compelling novel, Black Robe. In Bitter Feast, sociologist and historian Denys Delage takes a fresh look at the struggle underlying the me…
The author examines the problems and exchanges that resulted from the encounter between native people and European settlers in the Americas between 1492 and 1800.
"This interdisciplinary volume of essays by eminent scholars engages with the issue of how Europe and Europeans were perceived by observers from various parts of the world during the Early Modern period. It seeks to redress the asymmetry in scholarship whereby European views of …
Why did medieval Europeans seem to have such specific knowledge about a land they had not yet discovered? The author presents evidence that the Eskimos' provided the basis for medieval maps of the areas of America that no Europeans had reached.
Why did medieval Europeans seem to have such specific knowledge about a land they had not yet discovered? The author presents evidence that the Eskimos' provided the basis for medieval maps of the areas of America that no Europeans had reached.
"This illuminating and carefully chosen anthology contains a collection of among the best writings by European travellers from England, Italy, Russia, France, Spain and Portugal as they journeyed the length and breadth of the Empire over a 200-year period (1471-1671). Their expe…
