North America local history
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A Brief History of MexicoCover the developments in Mexico. This title includes: Mexico's pre-Columbian civilizations as well as contemporary indigenous cultures; The environment; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); and, The war on the drug cartels.Author: Lynn V. FosterPublisher: Checkmark BooksPublished: 08/01/2009Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.92h x...
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Orozco: The Life and Death of a Mexican RevolutionaryOn August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five "horse thieves." One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco's death proved as controversial as his storied life,...
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Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial MexicoColumbus arrived on North American shores in 1492, and Cort s had replaced Moctezuma, the Aztec Nahua emperor, as the major figurehead in central Mexico by 1521. Five centuries later, the convergence of "old" and "new" worlds and the consequences of colonization continue to...
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Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican VillagesThis study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to...
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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle"Remarkable...Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful....Goldman brings something new to the chronicle] form."--John Freeman, Boston Globe The Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman's brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his...
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Forensic Investigations of the AztecsHow can modern forensic tools help solve the mystery of ancient Aztec skull masks? What can we learn about Aztec life from the forensic analysis of their art? Can chemical analysis teach us about how Aztecs treated disease - and why millions were killed...
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Forensic Investigations of the MayaWhat can modern DNA analysis of skeletons tell us about the lifestyle, diet, and beliefs of the Maya? How can new mapping technology uncover previously hidden Mayan cities and structures? Can we use forensic science to solve the mystery of how the Mayan civilization...
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Explore with Sieur de la SalleThis engaging book follows the travels of French nobleman Sieur de la Salle who expanded the fur trade in North America - then called New France - and explored the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico. Historical information and high-interest fact boxes...
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Paddling Prince Edward Island, First EditionPrince Edward Island, the smallest of Canada's provinces, is a growing destination for canoeists and recreational and sea kayakers. PEI's bucolic setting, charming towns, varied wildlife, friendly people, and abundant and accessible waters make it a kind of paddler's paradise. This book guides the...
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Saint John West and Its NeighboursThis fascinating collection of photographs brings to life the dramatic and colourful history of Saint John West and its neighbours. Over two hundred images show how this area developed during the last century as the fishing, shipping, and rail centre of Saint John; how...
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Around Lake MemphremagogAround Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the...
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St. George and Its NeighboursIn 1783, Peter Clinch arrived at the mouth of the Magaguadavic River and, finding he could not navigate the forty-foot falls, climbed up the cliffs of the Fundy shoreline. On the intervale above, he founded the town of St. George. The falls were to...
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Disappeared* "A tense thriller elevated by Stork's nuanced writing and empathy for every character, including the villains -- superb." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFour Months AgoSara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terrorize Juárez.Four Hours AgoSara received a death...
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Daily Life of the AztecsTireless speech-makers and lovers of verse, the ancient Aztecs were also prodigious record keepers, using a pictographic system to keep records of their history, geography, and rituals. Many of these accounts were destroyed after the Spanish conquest; but fortunately, a few survived, including those...
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Women in Mexico: A Past UnveiledThroughout Mexico's history, women have been subjected to a dual standard: exalted in myth, they remain subordinated in their social role by their biology. But this dualism is not so much a battle between the sexes as the product of a social system. The...
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Canada In Pictures: The Atlantic Provinces - Volume 1 - Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and LabradorAre you planning to visit Canada's "Atlantic Provinces" anytime soon? Then this book will be your best guide to Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. Aside from the captivating images, you will also gather important information that will help...
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Travelogue SketchesStraight from Zandro Tumaliuan's sketchbooks, this coffee table book contains drawings done while on personal and business trips in England, France, the United States, the Philippines and around his own backyard, Canada. Rather than taking photos, as an urban sketching aficionado the artist prefers...
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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and AmericaIn nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth...
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A Little History of CanadaThis lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes--from Indigenous occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation...
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Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century HistoryLate in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into...
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