North America local history
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper CylinderA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) is a novel by James De Mille. Originally serialized in Harper's Weekly, the novel was published posthumously and, at first, anonymously. Although De Mille's work predated such popular Lost World novels as H. Rider Haggard's...
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En Media Hora La Muerte / Death in Half an Hour« Qué nos quedaba?: El fascismo alemán o el fascismo español... A eso se reducía la oferta políitica de los años treinta. Y la democrácia? adios a la República española: trendríamos que escoger entre dos dictaduras, con todas sus consecuencias... Ante la inesperada confesión...
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Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of CanadaA wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and free, wolves have been...
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Nobody Knows the Spanish I SpeakNobody Knows the Spanish I Speak is a humorous memoir about dropping out late in life, selling almost everything, and moving to the middle of Mexico, where you don't know a soul and can barely speak the language. The story arc of the memoir...
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The Orangeman, Second Edition: The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan, Second EditionFrom the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them - against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans - bound...
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Water from Dragon's Well: The History of a Korean-Canadian Church RelationshipA Canadian-built mission house in the heart of Seoul became the heart of the emerging South Korean democratization movement, while a Korean minister rose to serve as the spiritual leader of Canada's largest Protestant denomination. The century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship has had a lasting...
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A Canadian Shame: The Indian Act and Residential SchoolsWhat is the Indian Act? What were residential schools? A Canadian Shame is a disturbing collection of information that forces every reader to meditate on the atrocities of government and institutions. Grimes's heritage and personal experience make him the perfect author for this book,...
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An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England [microform]: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid,This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and DeathMedical error is the third leading cause of death in hospitals, leading to disability, and in some cases, death. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the...
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The Red Baron of Ibew Local 213: Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt ElectricA ground-breaking study of the firebrand leader of the leftist faction of a construction trade union at a pivotal moment in labor history. The "Red Baron" from Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was Les McDonald, a firebrand Communist activist...
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Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest MexicoStrength from the Waters is an environmental and social history that frames economic development, environmental concerns, and Indigenous mobilization within the context of a timeless issue: access to water. Between 1927 and 1970 the Mayo people--an Indigenous group in northwestern Mexico--confronted changing access to...
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Rideau WaterwayThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A Legacy of Exploitation: Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821An exhaustive uncovering of the history of exploitation in Canada's Red River Colony. As a settler-colonialist project par excellence, the Red River Colony was the Hudson's Bay Company's first planned settlement. A Legacy of Exploitation unveils the history of this development, whose design was...
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Alton's Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin AmericaAlton's Paradox builds upon extensive archival and primary research, but uses a single text as its point of departure--a 1934 article by the Hungarian American cinematographer John Alton in the Hollywood-published International Photographer. Writing from Argentina, Alton paradoxically argues of cine nacional, "The possibilities...
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See No Evil: a Study of the Chaos in Canadian Defence PolicyThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A Voyage Down the Yadkin-Great Peedee River; 1929This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Mexico, Land of Mary's WondersThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and CanadaA dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America, ' he's told.In his introduction to this new edition of his classic...
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The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court: 50 Years of HistoryThe Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court are unique among Canada's courts because they are itinerant -- they hear cases in all parts of Canada -- as well as being bilingual and bijural. This book was prepared for the celebration of the fiftieth...
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Where I Come FromWhere do you come from? Join two fun-loving tour guides as they answer that question and give you an uplifting look at life in Manitoba! Readers will enjoy seeing what each new season brings and how everyday life in a small agricultural town can...
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