North America local history
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Baja California's Coastal Landscapes Revealed: Excursions in Geologic Time and Climate ChangeBaja California is an improbably long and narrow peninsula. It thrusts out like a spear, parting the Mexican mainland from the Pacific Ocean. In his third installment on the Gulf of California's coastal setting, expert geologist and guide Markes E. Johnson reveals a previously...
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Big Ocean Animals Dot Marker Activity Book: Giant Huge Cute Sea Creatures Dot Dauber Coloring Book For Toddlers, Preschool, Kindergarten KidsGrab this fun & Creative Huge Sea Animals Dot Marker Activity Book For Your Favorite Little One! With dots designed at the perfect size for your dot markers, it will be sure to keep your kids entertained for hours! Book Details: 30 Unique Pages...
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Alaska Road Trip Adventure: 5 months exploring Alaska, Yukon, B.C., and Northwest Territories by RV....A fast moving and informative account of an RV Road Trip to Alaska, Yukon, B.C., and the Northwest Territories. The destination is one of the world's last great wilderness areas, a region renowned for its spectacular mountains, abundant wildlife and stunning scenery. Along the...
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¡Vamos! Let's Cross the BridgePeople are always crossing the bridge for work, to visit family, or for play. Some going this way; others going that way. Back and forth they go. With friends on foot and in bicycles, in cars and trucks, the bridge is an incredibly busy...
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Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler ColonialismThough First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through...
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Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of ExtinctionCharting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what...
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Canadians and Thier Natural Environment: A HistoryThe book is a history of how people in the territory that is now Canada have interacted with all that is non-human since the last ice age. It takes as its jumping off point the idea that the primary human interest in nature is...
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The MissingAfter a girl she knows from school goes missing and is found dead, Feather is shocked when the police write it off as a suicide. Then, it's Feather's best friend, Mia, who vanishes--but Mia's mom and abusive stepfather paint Mia as a frequent runaway,...
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Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1935Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century...
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Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central MexicThe Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge. It also affords a firsthand indigenous perspective on the Nahua past, present, and future...
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From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms: Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland MarshA revealing look at how farmland has been shaped, and ultimately imperiled, by liberal notions of progress and nature. The Holland Marsh, a small agricultural preserve just north of Toronto, boasts some of the richest farmland in Canada. In From Dismal Swamp to Smiling...
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Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi'kmaw Quest for JusticeNow in paperback, the story of how Donald Marshall Jr.'s life-long battle against injustice revitalized Indigenous law in Canada. The name "Donald Marshall Jr." is synonymous with "wrongful conviction" and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan--Marshall's former...
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For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938Caritina Piña Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the...
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The Franklin Conspiracy: An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic ExpeditionThe Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither...
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The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics Between Europe and MexicoFollowing conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This...
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Cannon in Canada, Province by Province, Volume 3: Nova ScotiaThis third volume of Cannon in Canada is an informative and detailed synopsis of the carefully preserved and restored guns and artillery on display in the province of Nova Scotia. The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery is represented by a long and distinguished line...
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I'm Finding My TalkFormer Halifax Poet Laureate and second-generation residential school survivor Rebecca Thomas writes honestly and powerfully in this companion piece to Rita Joe's I Lost My Talk. Includes vibrant illustrations from Mi'kmaw artist Pauline Young.A response to Rita Joe's iconic poem I Lost My Talk,...
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The Loyalists of DigbyThe Town and County of Digby in Nova Scotia have a fascinating Loyalist history. From the Admiral Digby Well to the Acaciaville Baptist Church both are connected through history to the United Empire Loyalists and Black Loyalists who arrived in the 1780s as refugees....
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For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary MexicoWhy did Jos de Le n Toral kill lvaro Obreg n, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. This book offers new insights on how diverse sectors experienced the...
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Impossible Domesticity: Travels in MexicoTravelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures' desires, fears, and anxieties. G mez argues that Mexico's role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political...
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