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  • Shaping Entrepreneurship Research

    Made, as Well as Found

    Edited by Nicholas Dew, Sankaran Venkataraman, Saras Sarasvathy ...
    Shaping Entrepreneurship Research: Made, as Well as Found is a collection of readings designed to support entrepreneurship research. Focused on a worldview in which the future is open-ended and shapeable through human action – i.e. “made”, this collection reframes entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial rather than as a natural or social science. It posits an open-ended universe for the ... Read more

    $122.29 CAD

  • Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

    Edited by James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew ...
    Series series New Directions in American History
    Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Crucible of War

    The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

    by Fred Anderson ...
    In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    by Lawrence N. Powell ...
    This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

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  • Independence Lost

    Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian tells the “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) story of the Revolutionary War through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society—including enslaved people, American Indians, women, and British loyalists—in a revised edition with a new preface and afterword.**Kathleen DuVal is featured in the new Ken Burns documentary The American Revolution.**Winner ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Fort William Henry 1755–57

    A battle, two sieges and bloody massacre

    by Ian Castle ...
    Series Book 260 - Campaign
    An illustrated history of the French siege of Fort William Henry in 1757 and the most infamous incident of the French-Indian War: the massacre that inspired the book The Last of the Mohicans.After the British garrison of Fort William Henry in the colony of New York surrendered to the besieging army of the French commander Marquis de Montcalm in August 1757, it appeared that this particular episode ... Read more

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  • Heroes of the Acadian Resistance

    The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765

    by Dianne Marshall ...
    Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and deportation.Their battle was against a form of ethnic cleansing that saw British soldiers burn every remnant of the Acadian ... Read more

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  • The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

    by Hugh Boscawen ...
    Series Book 27 - Campaigns and Commanders Series
    Louisbourg, France's impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island's foggy Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years' War—only for British forces to suffer successive defeats. In 1758, Britain and ... Read more

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  • When London Was Capital of America

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  • Becoming Americans

    by Donald Batchelor ...
    The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores, and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility, merchants factors, and land speculators herded sickly throngs aboard, betting that the purchase of these laborers and their landrights would establish them as wealthy planters in the New ... Read more

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  • Condorcet

    Writings on the United States

    Edited by Guillaume Ansart ...
    Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new ... Read more

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  • Marlborough's America

    by Stephen Saunders Webb ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD