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  • Pursuits of Happiness

    The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial British American history.Greene argues that the New England declension model traditionally ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Hitler Strikes North

    The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940

    by Jack Greene, Alessandro Massignani ...
    A detailed account of Germany's groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the "Phoney War" in the West. In a single day, multiple seaborne and airborne landings established German forces ashore in Norway, overwhelming the unprepared ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Slim Hardy Mystery Series Books 1-3 Boxed Set

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series series The Slim Hardy Mystery Series

    Unabridged

    16 hours 9 min

    THE FIRST THREE SLIM HARDY MYSTERIES COLLECTED TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE MAN BY THE SEAJohn "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens an old book, and begins to read aloud ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Along the Old Pier

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 10 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    “I was only gone a half hour. When I came back, he was gone.”Puppeteer Bob Harker has wandered the grey sands of Weston-Super-Mare for as long as anyone can remember, peddling his own brand of Punch’n’Judy to tourists and locals alike. Now, according to Reggie Bowles, his best friend, Bob Harker is dead.The only problem is that Bob’s body has disappeared.Convinced by Reggie to investigate both Bob ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1940–1943

    by Jack Greene, Alessandro Massignani ...
    This superbly researched book gives a complete account of the war in the Mediterranean on, above and beneath the sea up until Italy's armistice in September 1943. Written with full access to Italian sources, it not only provides a detailed and fascinating narrative of the entire naval war, but also sets the individual actions fully in their strategic context for both the Axis and the Allies. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Prince And The Sea Devils

    The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas

    by Jack Greene, Alessandro Massignani ...
    At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed with a variety of destructive torpedoes. The covert tactics he and the Decima MAS developed, including the use ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Intellectual Construction of America

    Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe’s first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Quest for Power

    The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia — in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Creating the British Atlantic

    Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonization ... Read more

    $44.59 CAD

  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series New Histories of American Law
    Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Slow Train

    by Jack Benton ...
    Narrated by Kevin E Green ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Slim Hardy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    Slow Train: A thrilling British mystery that will leave you guessing until the last page...On the evening of Saturday, January 15th, 1977, a local commuter train is delayed at a small village station by a freak blizzard. Young nurse Jennifer Evans, keen to get back to her family, plans to walk the last couple of miles to her home in a neighbouring village. She phones her daughter to confirm that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus