The New world compared with the Old : a description of the American government, institutions, and enterprises, and of those of our great rivals at the present time, particularly England and France Hartford, Conn. : S.M. Betts & Company, 1870. 653 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E301 T748
United States — Politics and government
Great Britain — Politics and government
France — Politics and government.
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Cobbett's America : a selection from the writings of William Cobbett / edited with an introduction by J.E. Morpurgo. London : Folio Society, 1985. xxxi, 246 pages, [11] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E302 C65 C65
Journalists — Great Britain — Biography
Politicians — Great Britain — Biography
United States — Politics and government — 1789-1865
United States — Politics and government — 1789-1815
United States — De
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Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin London : J. M. Dent, 1917. xx, 314 pages ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E302.6 F7 A2 1917
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The critical period of American history, 1783-1789 / by John Fiske. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. xviii, 368 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E303 F55 C87
United States — History — Confederation, 1783-1789.
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The incredible War of 1812 : a military history / by J. Mackay Hitsman. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1965. x, 265 pages : illustrations, facsim., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E355 H63 IN2
United States — History — War of 1812 — Campaigns
United States — History — War of 1812 — Causes
Canada — History, Military — 19th century.
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The British Capture & Occupation of Downeast Maine, 1814-1815/1818 / George F.W. Young. Stonington, ME. : Penobscot Books, 2014. xvii, 124 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E355.6 Y72 2014
Includes index.
Maine — History — War of 1812
Canada — History — War of 1812
United States — History — War of 1812
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Lundy's Lane Historical Society
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen / compiled by a committee of the Lundy's Lane Historical Society. Niagara Falls, ON. : Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1919. 150, [2] pages : front., plates ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E356 L9 C34
Lundy's Lane (Niagara Falls, Ont.), Battle of, 1814.
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The War of 1812 Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1965. ix, 298 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E357 C69
Includes index.
Canada — History — War of 1812
United States — History — War of 1812.
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Personalities of America 2nd ed. Raleigh, N.C. : American Biographical Institute, 1983. xvii, 556 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E36 P467
American Biographical Institute.
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The age of fighting sail : the story of the naval War of 1812 / C.S. Forester. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1956. 284 pages ; 25 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 F71
Canada — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations.
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The fortunes of war : privateering in Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812 / by Faye Kert. 1986. 183 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 K41
Privateering — Atlantic Provinces — History
Canada — History — War of 1812
United States — History — War of 1812.
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The Naval War of 1812 : a documentary history / William S. Dudley, editor, Michael J. Crawford, associate editor ; with a foreword by John D.H. Kane, Jr.. Washington : Naval Historical Center, Department of Navy : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1985-. ill. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 N318
Crawford, Michael J
Dudley, William S.
Naval Historical Center (U.S.)
United States — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations — Sources.
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Guns off Cape Ann : the story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake / by Kenneth Poolman. London : Evans Bros, 1961. 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 P822
United States — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations.
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The prisoner of war in the United States during the War of 1812 / by Anthony G. Dietz. Washington, D.C. : American University, 1964. xii, 393 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E362 D566 1964
University Microfilms, Inc. order no. 64-12801. Bibliography: pages [380]-390.
Prisoners of war
United States — History — War of 1812 — Prisoners and prisons.
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The diary of Benjamin F. Palmer Boston : Acorn Club, 1914. xxiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E362 P17
United States — History — War of 1812 — Personal narratives
United States — History — War of 1812 — Prisoners and prisons
Melville Island (N.S.)
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Hidden America / by Roland Wells Robbins and Evan Jones. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1959. 263 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E39 R635
Excavations (Archaeology) — United States
United States — Antiquities.
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To the Webster-Ashburton treaty : a study in Anglo-American relations, 1783-1843 / by Howard Jones. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1977. xx, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E398 J77
The Webster-Ashburton treaty: pages 181-187.
United States — Foreign relations — Great Britain
Great Britain — Foreign relations — United States.
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Speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son / edited with introductory sketch and notes by Richard H. Dana. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910. 520 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E415.9 D15
Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931, ed.
Slavery — United States
Fugitive slaves — United States
United States — Politics and government.
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The life of Boston King : Black loyalist, minister and master carpenter / Boston King ; edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita A.M. Robertson. Halifax : Nimbus Pub. and the Nova Scotia Museum, 2003. 60 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E444 K45 2002
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
Robertson, Carmelita.
Slaves — Biography. — United States
Black loyalists — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Methodist Church — Clergy — Biography.
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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation / edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller. New York : New Press ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1998. lii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. + 2 sound cassettes (analog)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E444 R46 1998
Includes live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings from written interviews. Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and index. V.1 - Book. V.2 - Cassettes.
Favreau, Marc, 1968-
Miller, Steven F.
Enslaved persons — Southern States — Interviews
Enslaved persons — Southern States — Social conditions — 19th century — Sources
African Americans — Southern States — Social conditions — 19th century — Sources
Freed persons — United States — Interviews
Slavery — Southern States — History
Enslaved persons — Southern States — History
Plantation life — Southern States — History — 19th century
African Americans — Interviews
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Black liberation on Cumberland Island in 1815 / Mary R. Bullard. South Dartmouth, Mass. : M.R. Bullard, 1983. ix, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E445 G3 B938
Imprint stamped on verso of t.pages Includes index.
Afro-Americans — Georgia — Cumberland Island — History — 19th century
Slavery — Georgia — Cumberland Island — History — 19th century
Freedmen — Georgia — Cumberland Island — History — 19th ce
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The struggle against slavery : a history in documents / David Waldstreicher. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. 173 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E447 W35 2001
Slaves — United States — Social conditions Sources Juvenile literature
Free African Americans — Social conditions Sources Juvenile literature
African Americans — Civil rights — History Sources Juvenile literature
Antislavery
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Empire of the North Atlantic : the maritime struggle for North America 2nd ed. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1958. xvii, 338 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E45 G73 E55
Issued under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
North America — History
Great Britain — History, Naval
Canada — History.
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North America and the modern world [New and rev. ed.] Toronto, J. M. Dent 1954. 438 pages illus. 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E45 M25 1954
World politics
North America — History.
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North America and the Modern World / by Edgar McInnis. Toronto, ON : The Hunter Rose Company Limited, 1958. 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E45 M25 1958
Textbook that explains the relationship North America has with the rest of the world at the time it was produced. Explores the colonial roots of the Americas and the rapid changes that were making the world more globally interconnected.
World politics
North America — History
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