North America local history
-
Mariachi! Running Off to Mexico: Beckoning Advice on Beach Front Property, Retirement, and Crossing Borders:Mariachi is a spicy mix of memoir, travelogue, and how-not-to. all keeping tune with the enchanting music of Mexico. From working with laborers on the high plateaus of the Sierra Madre to many years later owning a condo on the Pacific coast, Berger takes...
- CHF 23.96
- CHF 23.96
- Unit price
- per
-
The Almanac Of Canadian Figure SkatingHow much do you know about Canada's most exciting winter sport? The Almanac of Canadian Figure Skating is a comprehensive book crammed with fascinating facts and figures, many of which you simply can't find online. This compelling reference book includes: - Biographies of hundreds...
- CHF 31.68
- CHF 31.68
- Unit price
- per
-
Forever Our Home / Kâkikê KîkinawA lullaby of reconciliation and reclamation, celebrating the ancestral relationship between Indigenous children and the land that is forever their home. Under glowing morning sun and silvery winter moon, from speckled frogs croaking in spring to summer fields painted with fireweed, this meditative lullaby...
- CHF 29.29
- CHF 29.29
- Unit price
- per
-
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, Canada. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and the other held relief supplies, both intended for war-torn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and...
- CHF 26.46
- CHF 26.46
- Unit price
- per
-
Explore the Best of Spain: An Easy Travel Guide for a Memorable TripAuthor: Jay WatersPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 01/12/2023Pages: 34Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07dISBN: 9798373537032This title is not returnable
- CHF 16.67
- CHF 16.67
- Unit price
- per
-
Rosita y la Noche de los RábanosJoven Rosita compite en el concurso de talla de r bano de Oaxaca, M xico que se celebra cada 23 de diciembre. Ella espera ganar el primer premio y utilizar el dinero para mejorar la granja de su familia.Author: Dorothy Thurgood ManningPublisher: 33 Loretta...
- CHF 38.01
- CHF 38.01
- Unit price
- per
-
Baja Legends: The Historic Characters, Events, and Locations That Put Baja California on the MapAuthor: Greg NiemannPublisher: Sunbelt PublicationsPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 261Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.71dISBN: 9780932653475
- CHF 27.95
- CHF 27.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Along the Trail in Algonquin Park: With Ralph BiceAlong the Trail in Algonquin Park has delighted thousands of readers across Canada and the United States from the time of its first publication in the summer of 1980. This is the fourth reprint of the classic work by the late legendary outdoorsman, Ralph...
- CHF 25.34
- CHF 25.34
- Unit price
- per
-
Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de B xar, a dying widow named Mar a Concepci n de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings...
- CHF 79.99
- CHF 79.99
- Unit price
- per
-
The Red River Trails: Oxcart Routes Between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement, 1820-1870The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures...
- CHF 44.38
- CHF 44.38
- Unit price
- per
-
Under the Dragon's TailDesperate women, rich and poor, come to her in need of help - and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients' condition, her contempt and greed leaves them resentful and angry....
- CHF 26.39
- CHF 26.39
- Unit price
- per
-
August Gale: A Father And Daughter's Journey Into The Storm, First EditionLong before The Perfect Storm, the 1935 August Gale roared northeast. The surf raged along the New York and New Jersey shores as the gale whirled toward Newfoundland. Waves as tall as three-story houses swamped ships; monster combers broke masts in two and swept...
- CHF 24.13
- CHF 24.13
- Unit price
- per
-
Eating the Ocean: Seafood and Consumer Culture in CanadaDuring the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb, driving down profits and wages. To address this, both industry and government sought to stimulate domestic consumption via increased advertising. In Eating the Ocean Brian Payne...
- CHF 79.99
- CHF 79.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Celebrating the People of MexicoMexico is a nation of magnificent cultures. Readers of this beautifully designed volume will explore the converging heritages that have shaped Mexico, including those of ancient civilizations and the French and Spanish. Need-to-know information about the past and present, such as how the country's...
- CHF 50.42
- CHF 50.42
- Unit price
- per
-
The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico's Post-Neoliberal ConversionAs one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politico-economic organization, neoliberalism...
- CHF 71.75
- CHF 71.75
- Unit price
- per
-
Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return MigrationMigration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion documents a revealing irony in the latter sort: internal migration often is global in character, motivated by foreign affairs and international economic integration, and it is no...
- CHF 190.22
- CHF 190.22
- Unit price
- per
-
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life What accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in the untold story of how the...
- CHF 100.11
- CHF 100.11
- Unit price
- per
-
A Very Canadian Coup: The Rise and Demise of Prime Minister MacKenzie Bowell, 1894-1896A fresh take on the Manitoba schools question and the Conservative Coup that toppled Canada's fifth prime minister.When Mackenzie Bowell became Canada's fifth Prime Minister in December 1894, everyone -- including Bowell -- expected the job would involve nothing more than keeping the wheels...
- CHF 33.36
- CHF 33.36
- Unit price
- per
-
Cold War, 50th Anniversary Edition"A thorough, evocative, exciting account of what happened that September ... MacSkimming's control of the story and his feel for character ... give it a new electricity."--The Globe and MailRelive the excitement of the greatest hockey series ever played, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.When...
- CHF 26.63
- CHF 26.63
- Unit price
- per
-
The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the BorderBased on true events, this inspiring story follows a mama and her daughter who are denied entry at the U.S. border, and must find the refugee in charge of "the notebook," an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the U.S. Before, the...
- CHF 42.02
- CHF 42.02
- Unit price
- per