North America local history
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A Short History of Canada: Seventh EditionA fully updated edition of the Canadian classic. Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will...
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Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and CanadaThis profusely illustrated comprehensive key for identifying amphibians and reptiles from the continental United States and Canada incorporates a wealth of scientific findings. Since the first edition was published in 1998 and the second in 2012, the number of currently recognized species of native...
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Zapata and the Mexican RevolutionThis essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata...
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The Love of a Good WomanWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the...
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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and JewelryA love story told in the form of an auction catalog. Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person -- their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote,...
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The Wind That Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words...
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100 Nature Hot Spots in British Columbia: The Best Parks, Conservation Areas and Wild PlacesAn illustrated guide to British Columbia's most popular nature getaways and best-kept secrets. The well-known slogan for Canada's westernmost province is Super, Natural British Columbia, a fitting tribute to its legendary natural beauty. The entire province is richly blessed with lush rainforests, snow-capped mountains,...
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Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco ConflictsLinguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montréal, Québec in the late twentieth...
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Great Escapes #1: Nazi Prison Camp EscapeAre you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, the first installment in a brand-new, edge-of-your-seat series based on real events In spring 1942, Royal Air Force pilot Bill Ash's plane...
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The New Americans: Colonial Times: 1620-1689This ongoing series introduces our country's history to young readers in an appealing picture-book format. Clear, simple texts combine with informative, accurate illustrations to help young people develop an understanding of America's past and present.The New Americans is the story of the colonists --...
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The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in OntarioIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province's population and the German language was spoken in businesses, public schools, churches, and homes. German speakers...
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and PerformanceThe Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans' unquestionable influence on Mexico's history and culture and the historical studies recently...
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Snow Nomad: An Avalanche MemoirFrom bombs to bombillas, Snow Nomad: An Avalanche Memoir, chronicles the fifty seasons author Alan Dennis worked in the avalanche patch, travelling between Canada, New Zealand, Scotland, and Argentina. His nomadic account is composed of "facts, factoids, truths, half-truths, rumours, gossip, and fake news."...
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El dragon y la ceiba. Chinos en el pais de los mayas. Siglos XIX a XXComo en una novela de aventuras y sufrimientos, un grupo de chinos fue llevado a la peninsula de Yucatan navegando 20.000 kilometros a vela en el siglo XIX.Su liberacion los unio a los mayas rebeldes durante la Guerra de Castas. Otros chinos llegaron despues...
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Unsettling Canadian Art HistoryBringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and...
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The Most Cunning HeartIn the early 1990's, Caitlin Maharg, grieving the loss of her parents, leaves everything she knows in Canada for Northern Ireland to pursue her love of poetry while living in a cottage by the Irish Sea. Feeling like a child again in a distant...
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Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in CanadaIn 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Fragments of Truth...
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Medicare's Histories: Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in CanadaMedicare is arguably Canada's most valued social program. As federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century, Medicare's Histories brings together leading social and health historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present. Embedding medicare...
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The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial MexicoA restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives "A breathtaking study that places free African-descended women at the nexus of questions about religion, commerce, and the law in colonial Mexico. Danielle Terrazas Williams...
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Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in MexicoMexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now...
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