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Ottawa Stories: Trials & Triumphs in Bytown HistoryJoin Cliff Scott as he highlights the famous--as well as infamous--characters, triumphs and tragedies of Canada's capital Ottawa from frontier times to today Ottawa grew into the capital city of today from humble beginnings. Early politicians peddled their agendas in back rooms, while their...
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Ontario Beer: A Heady History of Brewing from the Great Lakes to Hudson BayBeer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was...
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Florentine Codex: Book 6: Book 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy Volume 6Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahag n's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of...
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Florentine Codex: Introduction and Indices, 1: Introductory BookAuthor: Bernardino De SahagunPublisher: University of Utah PressPublished: 03/15/2012Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9781607811565Audience: Young AdultThis title is only available via back order
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Chinampas: Their Role in Aztec Empire - Building and Expansion (An Academic Research)The title describes the Chinampa Agricultural System, its history and its role in Aztec empire-building. It contains a chapter on the history of Aztecs and the Valley of Mexico, and concludes that the Chinampa Agricultural System, employed by Aztecs as the main form of...
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Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U.S. National SecurityNow in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people,...
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The Kite That Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension BridgeHoman Walsh loves to fly his kite. And when a contest is announced to see whose kite string can span Niagara Falls, Homan is set on winning, despite the cold and the wind--and even when his kite is lost and broken. Homan's determination is...
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Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860Following the American Revolution, free black communities and enslaved African Americans increasingly struggled to reconcile their African heritage with their American home. This struggle resulted in tens of thousands of African Americans seeking new homes in areas as diverse as Haiti and Nova Scotia....
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Muskoka Resorts: Then and NowSince the 1880s, people have travelled to Muskoka in search of solace and relaxation, enjoying the comfortable confines and warm hospitality of resorts while at the same time reveling in the tranquil wilderness and refreshing lakes. Things haven't really changed all that much over...
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Wolfe Island: A Legacy in StoneWolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and...
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The Town That DiedThe Town That Died is a moving and detailed account of the greatest human-made explosion before Hiroshima, the terrible disaster known as the Halifax Explosion. It is the first documentary account, told from the personal experiences of survivors, to accurately chronicle the tragic events...
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The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain's StoryFew recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the...
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Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the YukonIn 1886, the discovery of rich goldfields in the Klondike precipitated a flood of gold-crazed men and women rushing north to the Yukon territory. Suddenly, the northern wilderness and its aboriginal population were overwhelmed by the newcomers. The presence of large numbers of American...
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Crimenes de Francisco Villa.: TestimoniosFrancisco Villa es un cono indiscutible de la Revoluci n mexicana, en la cultura de masas fue erigido como el defensor de las causas populares, su biograf a es una mezcla de historia y leyenda, su nombre es ampliamente reconocido, no obstante, la construcci...
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Heavy on the DeadOne body on the sunny beach is all it takes for PI Leo Waterman to feel a chill.After seven months laying low in Ocean Beach, California, Seattle PI Leo Waterman has finally stopped looking over his shoulder--specifically, for the vengeful band of Washington white...
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World War 1: World War I in 50 Events: From the Very Beginning to the Fall of the Central Powers (War Books, World War 1 Books, WarDo you want to learn how the Great War began, was fought and ultimately won by the Allied Forces Read about the 50 most important events of World War I, from the very beginning to the fall of the Central Powers. This book is...
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Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, Third EditionFeaturing a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and...
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Connor McDavidHockey fans had been talking about Connor McDavid since he was not yet a teenager. They had been watching his growth and development, and marveling at his feats on the ice. Fans compared him to Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby, two of pro hockey's...
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Yucatan for Travelers - Side Trips: Valladolid to TulumYucatan for Travelers - Side Trips: Valladolid to Tulum looks beyond the obvious popular tourist attractions, luxury coastal resorts, and the modern conveniences of big cities to discover the unique Yucatan.From the Caribbean Sea to the extensive Gulf coast of Yucatan there are paved...
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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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