North America local history
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Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land AliveLabrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University, she has been a subject of documentary films, books, and...
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Life an Death in Templo MayorThe great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present...
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The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755Almost since Champlain's men first settled on St. Croix Island in 1604, the French and the English fought for control of Acadia, a huge area consisting of today's Maritime Provinces and parts of Quebec and Maine. The British assault on Fort Beaus jour in...
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The Top 100 Canadian SinglesShortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, Performing ArtsA book that gets to the heart of the matter Whether you're a professional musician or an air guitarist, a collector or a true amateur, this book will shake things up The Top 100 Canadian Singles -- brought...
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Camping at Coyote Creek: A chapter book for early readersThe My Country Cousins series is aimed at independent readers who want a stepping stone between early chapter books and full-fledged novels. The stories include: fast-paced, realistic plots likeable characters with humour and empathy short paragraphs and easy-to-read text lots of dialogue new words...
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The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern MexicoWinner of the Michael C. Meyer Award from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies2016-2017 Alfred B. Thomas Award Honorable Mention from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies2017 Annual Book Award Honorable Mention from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology...
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Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano HomelandUn lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimay , a curandero's shrine...
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True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the BronxAs journalist Sam Quinones convincingly demonstrates, much of Mexico was already changing before the July 2000 presidential elections which ousted the PRI and presented the world with President-elect Vincente Fox. Fox's victory marked the triumph of another Mexico, a vital, energetic, and creative Mexico...
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Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in MexicoIn Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the...
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Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel GenerationIn Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Z iga counters a literature that portrays...
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on EarthIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women...
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Climax at Buena Vista: The Decisive Battle of the Mexican-American WarThe ferocity and magnitude of the American Civil War eclipses that of all other nineteenth-century conflicts, but the hard fighting and tactics that played out between the North and South were first developed during the Mexican-American War of the late 1840s. It was during...
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ParadaisInside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the...
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Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military...
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A Perfect Gibraltar, 26: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by...
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First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzievolume 14Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled like to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his...
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Strangers in Blood: Fur Trader Company Families in Indian Country"A long-needed comparative analysis of...the officer class of the Hudson's Bay and North West companies before and after their merger in 1821...Essential reading for all serious scholars of the fur trade."-Ethnohistory "The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding not only of the...
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Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns,...
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Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsMaking the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
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Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897-1898 Gold RushKlondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In the midst of a depression near the turn of the twentieth century, these women dared...
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