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  • Count d'Esterhazy and the Esterhaz-Kaposvar Hungarian Colony in Western Canada

    by Joseph G. Nagy, PhD ...
    Throughout the late 1800s, waves of immigrants came over from Europe to North America, their arrival serving a dual purpose. On the one hand, the immigrants were seeking a better life for themselves and their families. On the other hand, the Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial governments were seeking to populate their territory in a bid to maintain sovereignty over the land and to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea

    Manannán and his Neighbors

    Edited by Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Nagy ...
    Series series The Early Medieval North Atlantic
    The literary, historical, and linguistic confluence that characterized the Irish Sea region in the pre-modern period is reflected in the interdisciplinarity of these new research essays, centered on the literatures, languages, and histories of the Irish-Sea communities of the Middle Ages, much of which is still evoked in contemporary culture. The contributors to this collection dive deep into the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Ollam

    Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

    by Anders Ahlqvist, Fergus Kelly, Patricia Kelly, Kim R. McCone, Damian McManus, Rory McTurk, Joseph Falaky Nagy, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, M. Katharine Simms, Liam Breatnach, Pádraig A. Breatnach, Morgan T. Davies, Aidan Doyle, Charlene M. Eska, Hugh Fogarty, William Gillies, Barbara Hillers, Sìm Innes, Aled Llion Jones, Catherine McKenna ...
    Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • "The Touch of Civilization"

    Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization

    by Steven Sabol ...
    The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state ... Read more

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  • The Promised Land

    Settling the West 1896-1914

    by Pierre Berton ...
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  • King Arthur

    The Making of the Legend

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    "A leading medievalist takes a clear-eyed look at the evidence for the existence of the legendary Arthur." — The Sunday Times "Best Paperbacks of 2021"According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Power

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  • Myths and Legends of the Celts

    by James MacKillop ...
    Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.Drawing on recent historical and archaeological research, as well as literary and oral sources, the guide looks at the gods and goddesses of Celtic myth; at the nature of Celtic ... Read more

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  • 1913

    In Search of the World Before the Great War

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features -- last summers in grand aristocratic residences -- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved ... Read more

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  • From Asgard to Valhalla

    The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths

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  • Medieval Literature

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