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Know It All: Finding the Impossible CountryIn Know It All: Finding the Impossible Country James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in Canadian publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia -- what one reviewer called "the intellectual equivalent of the...
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres Committed by the Popish Spanish PaBartolome de las Casas's A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies stands as one of history's most damning narratives of Spanish colonization that was ever written. Las Casas chronicled gory details of Spanish mistreatment of the native American Indians, an abuse which...
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Wilson Duff: Coming Back, a LifeThe fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast. Wilson Duff was born in 1925 in the city of Vancouver and his turbulent early years were...
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Food of Culture How Many Ways To Taco: Food of Culture How Many Ways To TacoFood of Culture "How Many Ways To Taco" is part of my adventure around parts of Mexico learning the tricks, flavors, and history of the Taco.Author: Peter IngrasselinoPublisher: BlurbPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 74Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9781006234460
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Northern Shores Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual LifeAugust, 1968. Fifteen-year-old preacher's kid leaves her small Midwestern town (where pronouncing "tortilla" correctly meant you were bilingual, and eating one made you multicultural) to spend three weeks in Saltillo, Mexico, on a language-study cultural immersion stay. A taste of chili peppers, machismo, and...
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Vintage Journal BanffThe Vintage Journal Banff Travel Poster pocket journal features a travel poster illustration of a girl sitting on a rock with the scenery of Banff with the words BANFF. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect...
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RockboundFirst published in 1928, this Canadian classic describes the lives of the people that make up an isolated fishing community on the fictional island of Rockbound, off Nova Scotia. The book is set just before the start of the First World War, in the...
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Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman ArtLandscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within...
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La Guerre d'Indépendance Des Canadas: Démocratie, Républicanismes Et Libéralismes En Amérique Du NordLongtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l'ensemble de l'Amérique du Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d'inaugurer une expérience républicaine différente. La révolution a échoué, mais les idées...
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The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico CityWhen late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban patrolmen, known as guarda faroleros, or "lantern guards," maintained the streetlamps and attempted to...
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Juan the Chamula; an Ethnological Re-creation of the Life of a Mexican IndianThis 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 Narrative of the Extraordinary Sufferings of Mr. Robert Forbes, His Wife, and Five Children [microform]: During an Unfortunate Journey Through the WThis 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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Report on Exploration in the Labrador Peninsula [microform]: Along the East Main, Koksoak, Hamilton, Manicuagan and Portions of Other Rivers in 1892-9This 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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Wilderness MenThis 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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Journey From Fort Prince Wales, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean [microform]: for the Discovery of Copper Mines and a North West Passage, PerforThis 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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Voyages From Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793This 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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Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and PerspectivesThough the participation of France in the American Revolution is well established in the historiography, the role of Spain, France's ally, is relatively understudied and underappreciated. Spain's involvement in the conflict formed part of a global struggle between empires and directly influenced the outcome...
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La Guardiana de la Libreta: Una Historia de Bondad Desde La FronteraA Spanish edition of THE NOTEBOOK KEEPER, the inspiring story of a mama and her daughter who are denied entry at the U.S. border, and must find the refugee in charge of "the notebook," an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the...
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Above the Fold: A Personal History of the Toronto StarA remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues most important to Canadians. Don't let them ruin the newspaper. . . These were the dying words of Beland Honderich to his son,...
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From Left to Right: Saskatchewan's Political and Economic TransformationAn in-depth look at the political landscape of Saskatchewan from its leftist roots to its recent shift to the right. In From Left to Right, Dale Eisler explores the events that have changed the character of the province, and how others see it, in...
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