North America local history
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The Vanishing Past: Making the Case for the Future of HistoryHistory isn't just a subject: it's the subject. So why aren't we treating it that way? Part personal essay, part investigation featuring commentary from leading educators and historians, The Vanishing Past is a heartfelt defence of a subject we malign at our peril and...
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The Two LightsThe tall red and white striped tower had stood on the headland for many years. Through fair and foul weather, it had successfully guided vessels into safe harbours. This, however, was a vicious storm. Could it once again bring frightened and weary mariners to...
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Thelma A Métis Girl Who Was Born in a StormA beautiful introduction to Métis culture and traditions . . .Thelma's favorite time of day is after dinner when her family gathers around the fireplace to be together and hear her father's stories. The story she loves best is the one about the night...
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From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems: del Ombligo de la Luna Y Otros Poemas de VeranoPura Belpré Author Award Honor, ALSC/Reforma Commended Lists - Américas Book Award, Consortium of Latin American Studies ProgramsBilingual English/Spanish. From the Bellybutton of the Moon is renowned poet Francisco X. Alarcón's collection of 22 poems inspired by his touching recollections of childhood summers in...
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Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768First published in 1994 and now available again, this Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California. Jesuit missionaries founded their first settlement in 1697 and unintentionally created a Hispanic society that outlived the missions...
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind"Fluent and lovely." -- School Library Journal Sixteen-year-old Sonia Ocampo was born on the night of the worst storm Tres Montes had ever seen. And when the winds mercifully stopped, an unshakable belief in the girl's protective powers began. Sonia knows she has no...
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A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of MexicoThis is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World...
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The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short IntroductionThe Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after...
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Mexico: Biography of PowerA History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996"A magisterial history. . . . Will surely stand for many years as the standard history of postcolonial Mexico." -- Wall Street JournalThe concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture...
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Canadian Pacific Ships: The History of a Company and Its ShipsEstablished in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the company and its ships In 1873 a company was formed to construct the first railway across Canada, soon branching out...
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Inquieta Compañía / Disturbing CompanyEn Inquieta compañía, Carlos Fuentes crea una atmósfera de suspenso que nos llevará por una senda llena de demonios, ángeles y fantasmas que no se alejan tanto de lo real. Respetando los elementos de la literatura de terror, Carlos Fuentes muestra a través de...
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Los Hijos del Volcán / The Sons of the Volcano«Él era el puente entre el pueblo y la montaña, pertenecía a los dos mundos. Tikú, el hijo del caporal de la plantación cafetera La Portuguesa, siente desde niño en su interior una fuerza desconocida y brutal que marca toda su vida. Es la...
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Rockin' on the Rideau 2: The 70'sIn his first book "Rockin' on the Rideau: Ottawa's Golden Age of Rock and Roll", veteran Ottawa broadcaster and musicologist Jim Hurcomb pulled back the curtain on the first 15 years of Rock and Roll in Ottawa, from 1955-1970. That fascinating story continues in...
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The Beats in MexicoMexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac's On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs....
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Aggie and Mudgy: The Journey of Two Kaska Dena ChildrenBased on the true story of the author's biological mother and aunt, this middle-grade novel traces the long and frightening journey of two Kaska Dena sisters as they are taken from their home to attend residential school. When Maddy discovers an old photograph of...
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Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist Volume 14How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native...
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UrchinThey say Dor's family is cursed. The house her great-great grandfather built on the south side of St. John's has never been at peace; the old people think it lies on a fairy path. Ever since electricity came to the island, things have worsened,...
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Cuthbert GrantSon of a Scottish trader and an Indigenous mother, Cuthbert Grant became a leader of the Métis--a distinct group of mixed European and Indigenous people who developed communities along fur trading routes in the 1800s. He saw his people through conflict and change and...
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Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener's Guide to Preserving Plant BiodiversityMuch of our food comes from seeds. But where do our seeds come from? And where are they going? For much of human history, farmers saved their own seed stocks to ensure a good harvest from year to year. In the mid-twentieth century, governments...
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Oak Island Mystery: Solved: The Final ChapterLegends, questions and theories abound about Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and tales of buried treasure there. For more than two centuries, the island has been studied, searched, probed and cursed all the while failing to give up its secrets. Joy Steele's ground-breaking book, The...
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