North America local history
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Defining Métis: Catholic Missionaries and the Idea of Civilization in Northwestern Saskatchewan, 1845-1898"Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries'changing interests and agendas. "Defining Métis" sheds...
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Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: 1525 to 1980Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and...
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Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian PrairiesStoried Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West. Viewed through the lens of attachment to the soil and specific place, and through the eyes of both the immigrant generation and its...
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Winnipeg 1912At the beginning of the last century, no city on the continent was growing faster or was more aggressive than Winnipeg. No year in the city's history epitomized this energy more that 1912, when Winnipeg was on the crest of a period of unprecedented...
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Mexican MosaicOur new brief text highlights Mexico's stunning geographical, ethnic, and social diversity. In the sixteenth century, diseases brought by the Spanish conquerors wiped out almost 90 per cent of the indigenous population. Since then, Mexico - first as a colony of Spain and, after...
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Toward Magnetic North: The Oberholtzer-Magee 1912 Canoe Journey to Hudson BayA stunning collection of conservationist and explorer Oberholtzer's photographs and journal entries from his famous paddle to Hudson Bay.Author: Ernest OberholtzerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 06/01/2008Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.24h x 12.24w x 0.67dISBN: 9780873516235
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Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of Francois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin WilliamsAvailable for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of Fran ois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and...
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Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the...
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The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for...
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Biking to Blissville: A Cycling Guide to the Maritimes and the Magdalen IslandsOver highways and byways and converted railway roadbeds, Biking to Blissville gives maps and precise directions for about forty bicycle rides through the most scenic areas of Maritime Canada. Most of the trips are loops. Each leads from a country inn, motel, or campground...
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Mexican: A Journey Through DesignAn American expat searches vibrant cities and quiet pueblos for the essence of authentic Mexican styleRevealing the richly visual and cultural details that are the essence of Mexican style, design editor and photographer Newell Turner has done for Mexican design what legendary culinary pioneer...
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Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial MexicoModern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016 Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After a distinguished...
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Stories of Mexico's Independence Days and Other Bilingual Children's FablesThis collection of six bilingual children's stories takes a regional and historical emphases. Each story is followed with discussion questions to help children recall the story's key details and suggestions for classroom activities designed to stimulate curiosity and expand knowledge of historical eventsAuthor: Eliseo...
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Que Vivan Los Tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican IdentityConnections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence...
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Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-Gonz lez examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these officials...
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River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande BorderlandsIn River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jim nez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation...
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Traveling from New Spain to Mexico: Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century MexicoAntonio Garc a Cubas's Carta general of 1857, the first published map of the independent Mexican nation-state, represented the country's geographic coordinates in precise detail. The respected geographer and cartographer made mapping Mexico his life's work. Combining insights from the history of cartography and...
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Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and vibrant religious life, during the turbulent period of modernization in Mexico that extended from the late...
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Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic PeriodLavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L....
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Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940When Indian communities of Chiapas, Mexico, rose in armed rebellion in 1994, they spoke boldly of values, rights, identities, and expectations. Their language struck a chord for most Mexicans, for it was the cultural legacy of the Revolution of 1910. Of all the accomplishments...
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