North America local history
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The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian ImaginationOriginally published in 1971, The Bush Garden features Northrop Frye's timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.In this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the...
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Staking Claims to a ContinentStaking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over...
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all Manner of CrueltFew people read the full account of De Las Casas. Frequently this piece is referenced in excerpts in anthologies. However, should the reader want an authentic and direct account of the real events of the Spaniards' treatment of native peoples of the Carribbean and...
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Sailing the Inside Passage to Alaska: A practical guide to sailing the inside passageA practical guide to Sailing the Inside Passage to Alaska. Glacier Bay, Tracy Arm, Juneau, the Broughton Islands, Barranof Warm Springs, Sitka, Anke, and Anan Nature PreservAuthor: Robb KeystonePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/16/2012Pages: 140Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36dISBN: 9781479302246About...
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On Eagle's Beak: A History of the Montauk Point Lighthouse, A National Historic LandmarkThe Montauk Point Lighthouse has been a significant American landmark for over 200 years. Since its lighting in April of 1797 it has safely guided untold numbers of ships and people safely to their destinations. Because of its contributions to the economic development of...
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Baja Dreaming: Stories from another timeIf you've ever spent time in Baja, you'll enjoy this book. If you've ever wondered what Baja was like in the 70s, you'll enjoy this book. If you'd like to take a journey back to the "Baja of old", you'll enjoy this book. If...
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Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the AnthropoceneBetween 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph--a combination...
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The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New SpainWinner, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2019Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with...
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The Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs Under the French MandateWinner, Khayrallah Migration Studies Prize, Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, 2018Migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918,...
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MexicoTravel to Mexico. Find out the facts about this country in North America.Author: Gail Saunders-Smith, Christine JuarezPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 07/01/2013Pages: 24Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.10h x 11.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9781476530765Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 159940 / MexicoReview...
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Raiders from New France: North American Forest Warfare Tactics, 17th-18th CenturiesSupported by full-color illustrations, this study explores in startling new detail the "musket and tomahawk" forest warfare by which the French colonists and their allies battled to ensure the survival of "New France." Though the French and British colonies in North America began on...
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Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943Featuring full-color artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand accounts from participants, Storming Monte la Difensa examines the origins, execution, and aftermath of the FSSF's spectacular success at Monte La Difensa amid the savage winter conditions of December 1943. In December 1943 Monte La Difensa was...
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Are We Not Foreigners Here?: Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsSince its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced individual and group identities that are as subversive as they are dynamic. In Are We Not...
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The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary MexicoStephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive...
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Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about...
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Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New FranceIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth...
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Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and MexicoAt the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so...
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Los Protocolos de La Villa de Nuestra Senora Santa Anna de Camargo. 1762-1809.Author: V. S. Enz Ram Rez, Victor M. Saenz RamirezPublisher: PalibrioPublished: 12/20/2011Pages: 420Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06dISBN: 9781463313333Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Earthly Paradise: The Complete Travel Guide to Historic MichoacanPlanning to visit Michoacan, Mexico? You need to read Earthly Paradise. Written by a professional historian and Michoacan resident, this insider guide (the only one available in Engish) tells the story of this picturesque region and then guides you through every corner. Share Michoacan's...
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from Wah Lee to Chew Keen: The story of a pioneer Chinese family in North CaribooWho was Wah Lee? To the Keen family living in North Cariboo, B.C., Wah Lee was their forefather from China; amongst local historians, Wah Lee is the name for a general store in Quesnel, B.C. This book unravels the mystery of a name, which...
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