Les Deux Amiraux
267円 PARMI tous les romans dont la scène est sur mer, qui ont été publiés depuis vingt ans, nous n’en connaissons aucun dont les évolutions des flottes aient été un des traits principaux. Le monde a sous les yeux des scènes admirablement dessin&e...
Eve Effingham ou l'Amérique
267円 QUAND M. Effingham se fut déterminé à retourner en Amérique, il envoya ordre à son gérant de mettre sa maison de New-York en état de le recevoir. Il avait dessein d’y passer l’hiver, et d’aller à sa maison de campagne quand le printemps ferait sentir sa douce influence. Une heure après avoir quit...
Industrial Sunset
7,164円 Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful exam...
Hired Hands
5,831円 Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One, h...
Ontario Since Confederation
7,695円 Ontario Since Confederation contains some of the most recent scholarship in the field of post-Confederation Ontario history. This comprehensive collection, the first of its kind to be published in almost a decade, is intended primarily to introduce students to new areas of debate and new methodol...
Diaspora in the Countryside
7,695円 From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to...
The Traffic in Babies
6,765円 Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinc...
Naufragios
330円 Esta narrativa es la más interesante y fácil de leer de todas las "cartas de Indias" por ser la más extraña e irónica. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca pensó viajar a América como muchos héroes antes de él y ganar su fortuna y su honra. Un fracaso tras otro -- de los que él nunca tiene la culpa -- le i...
The North American Idea
4,085円 In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In 2001, however, North America peaked. Since then, trade has slowed among the three, manufactur...
The Mexican Revolution
3,227円 In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the ...
The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler
6,467円 Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of...
Class and Race Formation in North America
3,908円 On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians in...
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