Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

by Ernest Boyce Ingles, Bruce Braden Peel, Norman Merrill Distad

2003 · University of Toronto Press

The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

by Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett, Jacob Ernest Cooke

1961 · Columbia University Press

Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

History of Germany

by Ernest Henderson

2018 · Endymion Press

GERMANY stands in the centre of Europe, and on her soil all the great international struggles have been fought, the Thirty Years' War, the early campaigns of the Spanish Succession War, the Seven Years' War, the gigantic wars against Napoleon. It is the custom for modern educators to recommend the study of the history of France as a guiding thread through the intricacies of general European history; but is this choice justifiable? The two great, omnipresent factors of the whole mediæval period are the Papacy and the Empire; the Empire was German from the ninth to the nineteenth century, from the days of Charlemagne until the days of Francis II., and the Empire interfered in the affairs of the Papacy and of Italy far more than did France. When we come to the period of the Reformation, surely Luther and his kind were more prominent than the. French reformers, and the Emperor Charles V. had more to do with the affairs of Europe than any of the French kings. In the Thirty Years' War, larger interests were at stake than in the Huguenot struggles, and the German Peace of Westphalia necessitated a recasting of the whole map of Europe. Louis XIV., it is true, gave the tone to the high society of his age, and French was almost universally spoken and written at the German courts; but this influence was neither very deep nor very beneficial. Nor can it be denied that the French Revolution produced great results for Europe. Yet its effects, as far as Germany was concerned, have been overrated; the liberation of the serfs would probably have been accomplished without it, while constitutional government, popular representation, and trial by jury had still to wait for half a century.

Pierre Fauconnier and His Descendants

by Abraham Ernest Helffenstein

1911

Pierre Fauconnier II (d.1746) was a grandson of Pierre Fauconnier and Judith Normand, and a son of Jean Fauconnier and Madeleine De la Touche, French Huguenots who had immigrated to London, England. Pierre II married Madelaine Pasquereau in 1680, and immigrated during or before 1702 to New York City, subsequently moving to Hacksensack, New Jersey. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere. Some des- cendants immigrated after the Revolutionary War to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes much ancestry and genealogical data in France to the early 1500s.