North America local history
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Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire"A rich and detailed narrative of the lives of Aztec people (or Mexica as they are also known), from the construction of the city to its eventual collapse at the hands of Spanish Conquistadors. Readers also learn about less-discussed aspects of daily life such...
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest BorderlandsThis sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions...
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History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Seventeeth-Century Chronicle of Ancient MexicoA descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578-1650) was an avid collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a prodigious chronicler of the history of pre-conquest and conquest-era Mexico. His magnum opus, here for...
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Bonfires of the Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524-1540In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of...
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From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650-1900 Volume 15From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples--also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte--has been...
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The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada's NorthwestAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed to be taken to defend the Far Northwest. With Canada's approval, Washington drew up plans for an Alaska Highway to connect Edmonton, Alberta, with...
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Women in the Peninsular WarIn the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented-both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are...
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Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central MexicoThe Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge. It also affords a firsthand indigenous perspective on the Nahua past, present, and future...
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Teotihuacan: An Experiment in LivingThis book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged artistic - with those of other ancient civilizations, Ester Pasztory demonstrates how they...
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Guide to Ancient Maya RuinsSince the publication of the first edition of this work, it has become the standard guide for serious travelers to the great Maya sites of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. In this expanded and updated edition C. Bruce Hunter offers an introduction to the culture...
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The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial MexicoAfter the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples--a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican...
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Writing Mexican HistoryWritten over a 25-year span, these essays explore the ways in which the rural, regional, political, and cultural history of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico has been approached by scholars.Author: Eric Van YoungPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 03/14/2012Pages: 350Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x...
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Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican AmericaThis innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial...
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Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and PhilologyThe Nahua Indians of central Mexico (often misleadingly called Aztecs after the quite ephemeral confederation that existed among them in late pre-Hispanic times) were the most populus of Mesoamerica's cultural-linguistic groups at the time of the Spanish conquest. They remained at the center of...
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The Mexican Revolution: Porfirians, Liberals and PeasantsThe Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ultimately it served to reinforce rather than to subvert many of the features of the old regime it overthrew. Alan Knight argues that...
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Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their Native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds that the Iroquois' motives were primarily economic, aimed at controlling the profitable fur trade. José António Brandão argues persuasively against...
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First Nations, Identity, and Reserve Life: The Mi'kmaq of Nova ScotiaIssues of identity figure prominently in Native North American communities, mediating their histories, traditions, culture, and status. This is certainly true of the Mi'kmaw people of Nova Scotia, whose lives on reserves create highly complex economic, social, political, and spiritual realities. This ethnography investigates...
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The Ojibwa of Southern OntarioThe Ojibwa have lived in Ontario longer than any other ethnic group. Until now, however, their history has never been fully recorded. Peter Schmalz offers a sweeping account of the Ojibwa in which he corrects many long-standing historical errors and fills in numerous gaps...
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The Old Stones of Kingston: Its Buildings Before 1867 (Revised)Kingston is remarkable in that the visual evidence of its place in Canadian history and in Canadian architecture is still here: many of its older streets are lined with houses built of stone, and charming old limestone farm houses are found even in new...
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Indians of Canada (Revised)First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political organization,...
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