Trefferliste "Local History" - alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Charles Henry Coster

Coster, C: United States locals and their history

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

The Rifles

Live At The Roundhouse

Richard H Tomczak

Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783

Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era.

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. C…

Matthieu Caron

Montreal After Dark

Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisur…

Shaun Scott

Heartbreak City

How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistance To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United …

John Sandlos, Arn Keeling

The Price of Gold

The Price of Gold traces the troubling history of one of Canada's most contaminated mine sites and the Indigenous community, labour unions, and environmentalists who fought back against the federal govern…

Daniel Macfarlane

The Lives of Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. *The Lives of Lake Ontario…

Noëlle Phillips

Brewmasters and Brewery Creek

"A thorough investigation into the history of craft beer" --Kendall Hunter, author of Beer Hiking Canadian RockiesThis rigorously researched deep dive into the history of craft beer in Vancouver…

Laura Madokoro

Sanctuary in Pieces

Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protect…

Frédéric Mercure Jolette

Réinventer Montréal

Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robil…

Michael R Westcott

With a Unity of Purpose

With a Unity of Purpose examines the transformation of Newfoundland during the First World War from a society underpinned by classical liberalism to one dominated by social liberalism, in which citizens a…

Katherine Crooks

At Home in the Cold

At Home in the Cold brings to light the stories of five white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between the eastern Arctic and America between 1890 and 1940 in connection with exploratory expedi…

Out Here

Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn's quarterly reports from St John's to London are an insider's account of events in Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946. Publishing Walwyn's reports in full, Out Here recalls in viv…

Sherry L Smith

Bohemians West

Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of an early twentieth century radical romance between Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field who sought economic justice, gender equality, and individual f…

Micah True

The Jesuit Relations

The Jesuit "Relations" *explores the intricate relationships between the published *Relations and the many other texts written in New France, revealing a rich picture of a historical source that…

Ian Frazier

Paradise Bronx

"Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most various and alive borough"--

Steven Conn

The Lies of the Land

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic declin…

Ian Frazier

Paradise Bronx

Winner of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most heterogeneous and alive borough. Ian Frazier, one of our best observers and describers, has been walking…