North America local history
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Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography: Volume 82The maguey plant plays a central role in cultural adaptation and cultural change in highland Mesoamerica. This book is a comprehensive study of the plant and its use. Includes chapters on maguey cultivation and pulque production, maguey fiber processing and spinning, and the archaeological...
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Cowboy Park: Steer-Roping Contests on the BorderA century ago, when Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona outlawed steer roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills: Cowboy Park, the arena established in 1907 in Ciudad Ju rez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from...
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Lighthouses of Atlantic CanadaCanada's east coast currently has several hundred lighthouses, and this expansive volume features nearly 250 of them, complete with directions on how to reach those that are accessible. The stories surrounding each of these remarkable monuments provide riveting accounts of personal sacrifice, heroism and...
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Journeys Down the Alberni Canal to BarklAuthor: Jan PetersonPublisher: Oolichan BooksPublished: 07/01/1999Pages: 395Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.02w x 1.07dISBN: 9780889821781This title is only available via back order
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The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf NureyevFew ballet dancers have held the world's attention like Rudolf Nureyev. Naturally talented and technically brilliant, Nureyev had a charisma that knocked the dancing world on its heels. This stunning book is a very personal glimpse of a unique artist through the eyes of...
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Snacks: A Canadian Food History"Snacks" is a history of Canadian snack foods, of the independent producers and workers who make them, and of the consumers who can't put them down. Janis Thiessen profiles several iconic Canadian snack food companies, including Old Dutch Potato Chips, Hawkins Cheezies, and chocolate...
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Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada Since 1945Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during...
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Across the Deep Blue Sea: The Saga of Early Norwegian ImmigrantsAward-winning historian Odd Lovoll recounts the untold story of the history of Norwegian immigration to Canada, tracing the stories and documents of emigrant families south to the Upper Midwest, primarily Wisconsin and Minnesota.Author: Odd S. LovollPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 02/15/2015Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug WarMexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single...
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Luis de Carvajal: The Origins of Nuevo Reino de LeonIn 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and...
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Hiking Trails of Cape BretonThis revised edition has new and detailed information on 40 new hiking trails on Cape Breton Island, ranging from its very northern tip at Money Point all the way to the Ghost Beach Trail, which begins as soon as you cross the Canso Causeway....
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Tortillas: A Cultural History"The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine. . . . From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamerica commemorated important events with tortillas. One Maya tribe even buried their dead with tortillas so that the dogs eaten as...
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Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern TimesThe essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico," a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic contributions of...
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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites to overthrow General Porfirio D az, who had ruled...
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Sonora: An Intimate GeographyNow available in paperback, this informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, describes blistering deserts, alpine mountains, tropical river valleys, and arid coastlines, and relates the lives and stories of cattlemen, lumbermen, fishermen, weavers, cobblers, musicians, bootleggers, and Indians....
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The Art of Being In-between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial OaxacaIn The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her rich...
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Brigade: The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War IIBattalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War IIBased on war diaries, casualty reports, and after-action interviewsThe author is one of Canada's preeminent military historiansConsisting of the Calgary Highlanders, the Black Watch, and the...
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Cortés and MontezumaLanding on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hern n Cort s felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21,...
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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the...
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Acadian OdysseyFirst published in 1955, Oscar Winzerling's Acadian Odyssey has remained unsurpassed as a study of the exodus of 1755. Following their eviction from Nova Scotia by the English, many hundreds of Acadians spent years in various seaport concentration camps in England before reuniting with...
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