North America local history
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The Lonesome TravellerThis book is a history of banjo-playing Jerry Gray and his leadership of Canada's first folk-song group, The Travellers, beginning in 1953 and lasting over 60 years performing concerts across Canada and around the world in such locations as Toronto, Moscow, London and Nashville.The...
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Wires Crossed: Memoir of a Citizen and Reporter in the Irving PressThis book is a love letter to the free press. It is Julian H. Walker's personal memoir as a citizen and reporter which calls for a healthier New Brunswick free press-one that is more diverse, competitive, independent, and feisty. Through its traditional emulation of...
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Wires Crossed: Memoir of a Citizen and Reporter in the Irving PressThis book is a love letter to the free press. It is Julian H. Walker's personal memoir as a citizen and reporter which calls for a healthier New Brunswick free press-one that is more diverse, competitive, independent, and feisty. Through its traditional emulation of...
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Unsayable AbsenceIn the dusk of a disaster, Una McFadden is faced with indescribable pain and uncertainty in the middle of the Great Depression. She finds herself grieving in an asylum, wondering if she will ever see her children again.As a child growing up on the...
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Cobourg, 1798-1948This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Ancient Mexico; an Introduction to the Pre-Hispanic CulturesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The St. Lawrence Seaway of North AmericaThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Winning of the FrontierThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Legacy of Rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Historia de la Nación ChichimecaIn this book Leisa A. Kauffmann takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the writings of one of Mexico's early chroniclers, Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a bilingual seventeenth-century historian from Central Mexico. His writing, especially his portrayal of the great pre-Hispanic poet-king Nezahualcoyotl, influenced other...
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Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo MéxicoLong before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the "Kingdom of Nuevo México" had existed as an imaginary world--and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards' ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors...
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Pleasure and Panic: New Essays on the History of Alcohol and DrugsOffers a range of perspectives on the debate about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws. Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. The history of drugs and alcohol is infused with what we understand as their...
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Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds: Canadian Women and the Search for Global OrderA spotlight on women in Canadian international affairs throughout history. Though marginalized by historians, women have served at the center of Canadian international affairs. Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds highlights the overlooked contribution of a diverse group of women in Canadian political history--missionaries, diplomats, doctors,...
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The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Ernesto Garcia Cabral: a Mexican CartoonistThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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La Vérendrye, Fur Trader and ExplorerThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Story of the Canadian Pacific RailwayThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Biographical Index to The French Occupation of the Champlain Valley From 1609 to 1759This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Chichen Itza, Mexico, 1895This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Seigneurial RegimeThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Algonquin StoryThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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