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A Sweeping History of Newfoundland & Labrador Before there was a Canada, there was Newfoundland. For five hundred years, this wind-scoured island and its vast continental hinterland occupied a unique and turbulent place in the story of the Atlantic world — as the site of the first European landfall in the Americas, the source of a fishery that fed nations, and the home of peoples whose lives were shaped, and sometimes destroyed, by forces far beyond their shores. In The Big Land, Daniel Hardy tells the full story of Newfoundland and Labrador with the sweep it deserves and the intimacy it ...

A Sweeping History Of British Columbia British Columbia defies easy summary. It is a place of staggering natural beauty and deep human contradiction — a province built on Indigenous land without treaty or consent, enriched by the labour of people it then tried to exclude, and shaped by conflicts between capital and workers that were fiercer here than almost anywhere else in Canada. It is also a place of genuine breakthrough: of land claims won after a century of struggle, of radical unions that changed what workers could demand, of environmental movements that began on a Vancouver ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of Ohio From ancient earthworks to modern battleground elections, Ohio's story is America's story. This sweeping narrative traces the arc of a state that has always stood at the center of the nation's most crucial transformations—from frontier wilderness to industrial powerhouse, from Underground Railroad routes to civil rights struggles, from canal-era boom to Rust Belt decline and uncertain renaissance. Ohio produced eight presidents, invented the airplane and the light bulb, built the steel and rubber that powered American industry, and became the ...

The Histories of Louisiana, Maryland & Mississippi In One Collected Volume In this compelling third volume of The States of America series, historian Daniel Hardy explores three Southern states whose distinct identities challenge our simplistic notions of what "the South" truly means. Louisiana, Maryland, and Mississippi share common threads—the shaping power of waterways, the brutal legacy of plantation slavery, the cultural richness born from struggle—yet each has forged its own remarkable path through American history. From Louisiana's unique Creole heritage and the birth of jazz in ...

A Sweeping Hisotry of the Great State of Maine From the ancient Wabanaki peoples who first called this rugged coastline home to the contemporary entrepreneurs building technology companies in converted mill towns, Maine's story is one of remarkable resilience, adaptation, and independence. The Pine Tree State traces the fascinating journey of a land shaped by ice ages and defined by its relationship with the sea, following the dramatic transformations that turned a remote frontier into one of America's most distinctive states. This comprehensive history explores Maine's pivotal moments: the...

A Sweeping History of the Province of Manitoba At the geographic heart of North America lies a province that contains, in concentrated form, the full drama of Canadian history. In The Keystone Province, Daniel Hardy tells the story of Manitoba with the sweep of a novelist and the precision of a scholar — from the ancient worlds of the Cree, Anishinaabe, and Assiniboine peoples, through the violent rivalries of the fur trade, to the birth of the Métis nation and the electrifying resistance of Louis Riel. Hardy brings equal authority to the immigrant flood that transformed Winnipeg into a ...

At this time of the year, as the nights close in and the temperature drops, winter seems like a season that nobody really enjoys, and we look forward all the more to spring. For many children, however, it is the bounty of Christmas that steals their attention, and for others the renewal of the New Year. But for Nature it is a pause for breath, to take stock of what has gone by in the year to date and ready herself for the energies and dramatic development to the landscape that spring will bring.

A sweeping history of the great state of Florida. From the ancient Calusa kingdoms to the modern Marvel of Disney World, Florida has always been a land of transformation. In The Sunshine State, acclaimed historian Daniel Hardy takes readers on an unforgettable journey through America's most captivating peninsula—a place where Spanish conquistadors searched for fountains of youth, where Seminole warriors made their final stand, and where dreamers and schemers have been reinventing paradise for over five centuries. Hardy masterfully weaves together Florida's epic story: the rise and fall of...

A masterful, concise history of one of the greatest states in America. From the vibrant shorelines of the Gulf Coast to the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Alabama, often known as 'The Yellowhammer State', holds a uniquely colorful place in America's historical tapestry. 'The Yellowhammer State: A History of Alabama' by Daniel Hardy is a compelling journey through this Southern state's rich and intricate past. Hardy brilliantly transports readers to the pivotal moments of Alabama's history, from the early Native American cultures to the era of French and Spanish exploration,...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of New Mexico For centuries, New Mexico has been a place where cultures collide, adapt, and endure. From the ancient cliff dwellings of Chaco Canyon to the secret laboratories of Los Alamos, from the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 to the meth epidemic of the twenty-first century, this sweeping history reveals a state unlike any other in America. Here, nineteen pueblo communities maintain languages and ceremonies that predate European contact. Spanish colonial settlements still dot the landscape, their residents descended from conquistadors and settlers who ...

The Histories Of Kansas, Michigan & Minnesota In One Collected Volume The American Midwest defies simple definition. It is heartland and flyover country, progressive birthplace and conservative stronghold, agricultural Eden and industrial powerhouse. In this first volume of his ambitious survey of the Midwestern states, Daniel Hardy examines three states whose histories illuminate the contradictions and complexities that define the region and the nation itself. From the Indigenous nations who first called these lands home to the waves of immigrants who transformed them, from wheat fields ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of Virginia From Jamestown's desperate beginnings to the removal of Richmond's Confederate monuments, The Old Dominion tells the epic story of America's most historically significant state—a place where the nation's highest ideals and deepest contradictions have always existed side by side. Virginia gave America four of its first five presidents and the intellectual architecture of democracy itself. It also built its fortune on slavery, led the Confederacy, and resisted civil rights longer and more fiercely than almost any other state. This sweeping ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of Indiana From frontier wilderness to America's crossroads, Indiana's story mirrors the nation's own remarkable journey. In this compelling volume from The Hardy Histories of the States of America, Daniel Hardy traces the Hoosier State's evolution from Native American homelands through French exploration, territorial struggles, and statehood to its emergence as a modern economic powerhouse. Hardy reveals how Indiana became the quintessential American state—a place where Yankees and Southerners, immigrants and natives, farmers and factory workers ...

A Sweeping History Of The Province of Alberta Alberta is the most misunderstood province in Canada — misunderstood by the rest of the country, and sometimes by itself. It is written off as a land of pickup trucks and pipeline politics, of boom-time arrogance and bust-time grievance, of a conservatism so reflexive it has become a kind of identity. Wild Rose Country argues that this picture is not just incomplete. It is wrong. From the dinosaur-rich badlands to the Athabasca oil sands, from the great buffalo hunts of the Blackfoot Confederacy to the immigrant tide that broke the prairie, ...

The Histories Of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas In One Collected Volume The American Southwest is where the nation's most enduring conflicts have played out across centuries—struggles over sovereignty, water, land, and identity that continue shaping our present. In this masterful collection of state histories, Daniel Hardy reveals how Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas share a profound common story that transcends their individual narratives. From ancient Puebloan cliff dwellings to Spanish missions, from the violence of territorial conquest to the broken promises of Indian ...

A panoramic history of the great state of Arizona Explore the rich, complex history of Arizona from prehistoric times to the present day in Daniel Hardy's vivid new chronicle, The Grand Canyon State. This sweeping narrative brings Arizona's diverse cultures and landscapes to life in technicolor detail. From the cliff dwellings of ancient indigenous peoples to the boomtowns of the Old West, Hardy paints a panoramic portrait of Arizona as a crossroads shaped by Native American tribes, Spanish conquistadors, Mexican and American frontiersmen, Eastern immigrants and world wars. With a ...

A Sweeping HIstory of the Great State of Rhode Island America's smallest state has an outsized story to tell. From Roger Williams's radical experiment in religious freedom to Samuel Slater's mill that launched the Industrial Revolution, from the dark profits of the slave trade to the fierce struggles of immigrant mill workers, Rhode Island has been a laboratory for democracy's greatest promises and deepest contradictions. The Ocean State traces four centuries of Rhode Island history, revealing how a tiny colony of religious exiles became the birthplace of American industry, a haven for ...

A Sweeping History of Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is the smallest province in Canada and, in many ways, the most itself. Bounded by the Gulf of St. Lawrence on all sides, shaped by red soil and cold water and the particular stubbornness of people who choose to stay somewhere difficult and beautiful, it has resisted easy summary for four centuries. Daniel Hardy's The Garden of the Gulf is the history this singular place deserves. Beginning with the Mi'kmaq people who knew the island as Epekwitk — lying in the water — and moving through French settlement, the trauma of the ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of West Virginia West Virginia is the only state born from the Civil War, splitting from Virginia in 1863 to join the Union. But its story of separation and struggle had only just begun. In this sweeping history, we trace how geography shaped destiny—how ancient mountains isolated a people and created a culture distinct from the rest of America. From the Scots-Irish frontiersmen who settled the hollows to the coal miners who powered the nation's industrial rise, West Virginians have lived at the margins of American prosperity while providing the ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of Oregon At the edge of the continent, where the Oregon Trail ended and a new American West began, Oregon has always been a place of dramatic contradictions. From the diverse indigenous nations who thrived for millennia to the pioneers who crossed two thousand miles seeking free land, from the timber barons who clearcut ancient forests to the environmentalists who fought to save what remained, Oregon's story captures essential American tensions between idealism and exclusion, prosperity and sustainability, individual liberty and collective ...