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  • Rye's Rite

    by Kurt Jensen ...
    Rye Nelson is content with a life of peace and solitude, shared with his grandfather and friends, working on a train that has taken him all over early-1900s America. However, when he's forced out of his routine and sent on a mission to find a father he's never known, anxiety, fear, and loneliness threaten to overwhelm him.Along his journey, Rye crashes his prized one-of-a-kind motorcycle into Red, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Cautious Beginnings

    Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51

    by Kurt F. Jensen ...
    Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested. He describes Canada’s contributions to Allied intelligence before the war began, as well as the distinctly Canadian activities that started from that point. He reveals how the government created an intelligence organization during the war to aid Allied ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520

    Context and Commemoration

    Edited by Heiko Droste, Kurt Villads Jensen ...
    Series series Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
    The Stockholm Bloodbath on November 7–9, 1520, during which Kristian II had more than 100 persons executed on charges of heresy, is a turning point in the history of the Northern kingdoms. This bloodbath eventually led to Kristian II’s lifelong incarceration, the rise of the Swedish Vasa dynasty, and the end of the Kalmar Union. It has commonly been perceived both as part of Swedish-Danish ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Running on Empty

    Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980

    by Peter Duschinsky, Robert J. Shalka, Michael Molloy, Kurt Jensen ...
    Series Book 41 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada’s history. Running on Empty presents the challenges and successes of this bold refugee resettlement program. It traces the actions of a few dozen men and women who travelled to seventy remote refugee camps, worked long days in humid conditions, subsisted on dried noodles and green tea, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Crusading at the Edges of Europe

    Denmark and Portugal c.1000 � c.1250

    by Kurt Villads Jensen ...
    This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement.Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often assumed and institutions, ideas, and military technology was exchanged rapidly, meaning it ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900-1550

    Between Two Oceans

    by Kirsi Salonen, Kurt Villads Jensen ...
    Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost all lands around the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. In the Middle Ages, Scandinavia became part of a common Europe, yet preserved its own ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire

    by Michael Bregnsbo, Kurt Villads Jensen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic Empire. ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Baltic Sea, The

    A Geopolitical History

    by Tobias Boestad, Axel Boltenberg, Hugo Bromley, Christian Bueger, Bogusław Dybaś, Kjell Engelbrekt, Tuomas Forsberg, Kristian Gerner, Peter Haldén, Martin Hall, Mats Hallenberg, Jonas Kjellén, Peter Krönvik, Henrik Meinander, Magnus Petersson, Johan Rönnby, Brendan Simms, Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo, Peteris Vanags, Jurgita Verbickiené, Kurt Villads Jensen, Rolf Fabricius Warming, Justyna Wubs Mrozewicz, Rasmus Glenthoj, Morten Nordhagen Ottosen ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    The Baltic Sea is more than an inland sea – it is a historic geopolitical stage. From maritime travel in the Viking era toa NATO-dominated region, this brackish inland sea has been a lifeline for people and countries in northern Europe. The Baltic Sea has served as a hub for economic and political relations – with the dominance of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages, the Great Power Battles ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    by Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Bookshop of the World

    Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

    by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen ...
    The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles.The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: ... Read more

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  • Charlemagne

    by Johannes Fried ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

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  • Cross and Scepter

    The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation

    by Sverre Bagge ...
    A concise history of medieval ScandinaviaChristianity and European-style monarchy—the cross and the scepter—were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia's leading medieval historian ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD