"People Migrations in Europe and America

Nation-Building: Prehistory to 1913"

by Myrtle Schneider Macdonald

Resources for High School-University Students-Professors, Family Historians, Genealogists, etc.
Secular and Spiritual History Updated
Classics, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Muslim

Self Published: www.CreateSpace.com, partner of Amazon.
See Amazon to review or purchase. This site lets you look inside the book and if you keep scrolling down, you will get to Customer Reviews. After you read some of the book, you may wish to make a comment to increase sales. For a textbook like this, the cost of $16.95 US plus packaging/duty, is unusually low.

People concerned about ethnic cleansing could benefit from reading this book. Massacres of various nonconformists were under-reported in textbooks, perhaps because of embarrassment to either church or state. Some settlers in America were government-sponsored colonists, but most were refugees from famine, oppression or persecution. Read the history of indigenous peoples in Europe and America and of settlers in every US State and Canadian province.

Although the author is Canadian, anyone across the Americas, Europe and worldwide, not just academics and students, can gain a fresh appreciation of their own history and that of other nations and cultures.

Phone: 604-795-6390. People living nearby can come for a signed copy.

Some highlights:
This one-volume book contains much important history left out of textbooks. This history of Europe and America was kept interrelated, comprehensive and yet concise.

• To find details you want quickly see the Table of Contents, the 172-item Bibliography or the 85-page Appendix A: Index and Catalogue of Events.
• Human interest bits featuring ethnic, social, political and religious movements, are interwoven to encourage peace-making and to awaken the interest of students bored with studying.
• Read about the continuous evolution of culture, languages, architectural and artistic skills, lifestyles, science and music over a span of 4,000 years.
• Tribes and nations claimed land and constantly changed their borders, codes of justice and creeds, all carefully documented.
• Opinions of the author are avoided.
• Content is arranged to appeal to a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, and also for anyone wanting to look for family history and genealogy.
• Dates are kept at the left as a visual aid to enable readers to understand simultaneous migrations from Asia, and the Middle East into northern Africa, Italy, Spain, SE and NE Europe, Scandinavia, Britain and up rivers into Europe and Russia.
• Bibliography references are superscripted by number and page.
• A broad world view came through shipbuilders: Norsemen, Vikings, Muslims and the Portuguese.
• Naval power grew through trading of spices, metals, gold and furs by Spanish, Dutch and British seamen.
• Explorers mapped the world, settled trading posts and created botanical gardens.
• Diseases explorers were immune to devastated indigenous people.
• Uncultivated land was thought unused
• Treaties formed reserves of limited size.
• Colonies became self-governing.
• Discover the contribution of Muslims to the Renaissance. They revived Greek knowledge of science and medicine, and added further scholarship.
• Many educated Huguenots (French Protestants) fled during the Inquisition to England, Prussia, the West Indies, Acadia (New England), and south and east Africa. They built ships, made bells and established silk production and
  vineyards. Jacques Cartier 1534-35 and 1540, and Samuel de Champlain 1604-1635, and other early explorers were Huguenots who brought experienced governance to North America and other continents.
• Gradually, French and English Canada became one nation. Montreal was founded 375 years ago.
• Looking for the NW passage, 1607 Henry Hudson instead sailed up the river named for him. In 1610-11 he explored the Hudson and James Bays.
• 1670: the Hudson Bay Co. was founded by Charles II, with his cousin Prince Rupert as Governor of the entire watershed, which included Oregon-Washington and Missouri. New England fur traders explored the Mississippi and established rival North-West Co. in Montreal, wintering on all rivers to Arctic and Pacific.
• Anne, granddaughter of "good king" Wenceslas of Bohemia/Moravia married Richard II of England about 1388. Her courtiers studied at Oxford under John Wycliffe and brought the Bible to Jon Hus, Chancellor of Charles University,
  Bohemia-Moravia. In 1415 Hus was martyred.
• The Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Brethren) was founded and became influential, while refraining from "sheepstealing” when Lutherans participated in Brüder Gemine (mid-week fellowships by Moravians) across Europe, the Baltic States and Volhynia (now in Ukraine). They have continued in East Europe, Africa and West Indies.
• During the Thirty Years War 1618-48 expelled from Bohemia, Moravian Bishop Comenius (1592-1670) helped develop a refuge and education centre at Lissa, Poland. He wrote a reader with pictures for boys and girls and also many practical scholarly books that reformed education in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Romania, Holland and England.
• French Louis XIV raided Protestants up to Heidelberg leaving destitution.
• Granted a charter, William Penn rescued and settled refugees in Pennsylvania.
• Moravian missions began 1732 to 1736 in West Indies, Greenland, England, Georgia and Pennsylvania. They influenced John and Charles Wesley who began the Methodist movement, composing many fine hymns, still sung today. Moravians being pacifists, did not take up arms, but provided animal fodder and care for the wounded of huge armies of both sides in numerous wars, including Napoleonic wars (1804-1814) and the American War of Independence (1785-83). Their well-built educational-industrial buildings in Pennsylvania were commandeered as hospitals, officers quarters and a Continental Congress.

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About the Author

"Myrtle Macdonald has an M.Sc.A. from McGill University in Nursing, Education, Social Sciences and Participant Observation and Systems Analysis Research. She worked in six Canadian provinces and four countries overseas among various indigenous cultures and Muslims. Retired, she did history research of Europe, the Middle East and America. This was at Ph.D. level but the nearby college was not yet a university. Kind librarians borrowed books from distant libraries. Other resources were the Internet, scholarly friends, Polish and Russian archives and elderly relatives who came to Canada in 1894-96...Since ancestors of Myrtle's father migrated across Europe into Alsace-Lorraine about 200 AD, she studied the civilizing of hundreds of tribes...The author's maternal and paternal ancestors settled among Americans who arrived in Alberta 1880 to 1900 looking for land...Her one-room school had American, British, Slavic and German students. Thus her interest in history began early. Irish and Scottish history was enriched through relatives of her late husband Dr. A.R.S. Macdonald."

She just turned 100 this past June!

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