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Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are intertwined. Mexico has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties,...
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Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay CompanyThe bestseller from James Raffan, Emperor of the North tells the story of Sir George Simpson, whose extraordinary life coincided with the success of one of the greatest commercial empires in history: the Hudson's Bay Company, a vast trading venture that became the world's...
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Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado"Here is a voice seldom heard, the voice of Latin America's majority, those who bear the burdens of society. If we are to understand Honduras, Central America, or, for that matter, Latin America, we must listen attentively to this voice. It has much to...
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RedeemersAn epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power, awork which the Wall Street Journal calls "the standard history ofpostcolonial Mexico," prize-winning author Enrique Krauzeilluminates the evolution of political,...
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Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial MexicoIn this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. Previous studies of sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond...
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Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in MexicoAbandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García...
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Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935Brian Behnken offers a sweeping examination of the interactions between Mexican-origin people and law enforcement--both legally codified police agencies and extralegal justice--across the U.S. Southwest (especially Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) from the 1830s to the 1930s. Representing a broad, colonial regime, police...
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Distant Stage: Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada's Cultural DiplomacyIt is a little-known fact that the first cultural agreement Canada signed was with Brazil in 1944. The two countries' rapprochement launched a flurry of activity connecting Montreal to Rio de Janeiro amid the turbulence of war and its aftermath. Why Brazil? And what...
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Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British ColumbiaAn examination of how early state schooling in British Columbia taught students the legitimacy of settler capitalism. Between 1849 and 1930, government-assisted schooling in British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. These institutions administered different systems that trained Indigenous and non-Indigenous...
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Mexico Unmanned: The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican CinemaIconic images of machismo in Mexico's classic cinema affirm the national film industry's historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state's political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of mexicanidad, but has the underlying gender paradigm been similarly...
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Mexico: An Expat's GuideMexico is a country known not just for its bustling metropolis but also for its cactus - studded deserts, tropical rainforests, beaches and blue waters, naturally crafted terrains, volcanoes and canyons, and of course it's flavorful nachos, tacos, and hard shot tequilas! Through its...
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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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An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and Their Work in 19th-Century TorontoA treasure trove of incredible lives lived.-- RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.-- WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the...
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Discovering the Movies in New Brunswick: A History of CinemaA Surprising History of Cinema.When David Folster discovered that some of the earliest documentary motion pictures were made in New Brunswick-wildlife and wilderness adventure movies-he began the research that led to this book. This lively account of movie making pioneers in New Brunswick includes...
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Salty Dips Volume 11: Some things pass. Some things change. Some just stay the same.Among sailors, "to spin a dip" means "to tell a story." The Naval Association of Canada - Ottawa Branch's Salty Dips series carries on this tradition by collecting entertaining and informative stories about the Canadian Navy as it is remembered by those who have...
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The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin AmericaCarleton Beals was among America's most distinctive foreign correspondents. His colorful, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp from which...
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All The Little Things: Good Things Come Book 2Faye Taylor grew up in the world of Thoroughbred horse racing, though she's afraid of the animals herself. She stays in the background, balancing the cost of feed against the horses' earnings (or lack thereof) and couldn't handicap a race to save her life....
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When We All Get TogetherFrom a mischief of mice to a loveliness of ladybugs, groups of creatures have beautiful, descriptive names. Join the Canadian wildlife in the maple tree forest. They're all gathering together one by one-until unwanted pests arrive!When We All Get Together presents collective nouns in...
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The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge StreetA close look at urban change in the heart of Toronto. From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, and developers built ever bigger and taller....
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A Reader in Canadian CivicsThis 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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