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From Dictatorship to Democracy
Confronting the Authoritarian Past in Brazil
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781835536971
Pub Date: November 2024
In From Dictatorship to Democracy: Confronting the Authoritarian Past in Brazil, Dr Gisele Iecker de Almeida offers a thought-provoking examination of how government initiatives construct representations...
Against the American Grain
A Borderlands History of Resistance
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780826366979
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
“Gary Paul Nabhan places the desert at the center of the ongoing struggle against colonialism, racism, and capitalism.”—Catherine Keyser, author of Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions“From...
Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods
Voices of the Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841, Revised Edition
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780228007319
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
While previous studies have concentrated on the boom years of the fur trade before the War of 1812, James Gibson reveals how the maritime fur trade persisted into the 1840s. He explores Russian, British, Spanish, and American participation in the Northwest traffic, and describes the market in South China, outlining the evolution of the coast trade.
Mosquito Warrior
Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas
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CA$150.00
ISBN: 9780817321932
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
A timely biography of General William C. Gorgas, the US Army doctor whose pioneering fight against infectious disease around the world set the stage for the American Century
Mosquito Warrior
Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780817361426
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
A timely biography of General William C. Gorgas, the US Army doctor whose pioneering fight against infectious disease around the world set the stage for the American Century
Unfurl Those Colors!
McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817361624
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Traces the engrossing story of the Union Army's strategies, stratagems, and movements on the bloodiest day in American military history
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V
The Symphony in the Americas
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CA$97.95
ISBN: 9780253067531
Pub Date: January 2024
Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges.In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late...
Americosis
A Nation's Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781990823282
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Sutherland House
Virtually every problem with the modern American mode of living stems from three major cultural characteristics: a pathological attachment to the automobile, a horrifying apathy toward the obesity epidemic,...
Stigma
Marking Skin in the Early Modern World
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CA$42.95
ISBN: 9780271094434
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Luis Gerónimo de Oré
The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807180129
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Gerónimo de Oré (1554?1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world, as the...
The Poetics of Fire
Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780826365545
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the shared cultural histories of ChicanX and LatinX peoples...
Christian Interculture
Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780271087801
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Why Rivals Intervene
International Security and Civil Conflict
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CA$75.00
ISBN: 9781487508272
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Drawing on historical case studies, this book explains why international rivals intervene in civil conflicts.
After the Postcolonial Caribbean
Memory, Imagination, Hope
Price:
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780745347905
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Pluto Press
Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean
Rebels in Arms
Black Resistance and the Fight for Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic
Price:
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780820362809
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Enslaved Black people took up arms and fought in nearly every colonial conflict in early British North America. They sometimes served as loyal soldiers to protect and promote their owners’ interests...
Contested Territory
Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Price:
CA$135.95
ISBN: 9780268205942
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects.
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Confronting the Authoritarian Past in Brazil
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781835536971
Pub Date: November 2024
Against the American Grain
A Borderlands History of Resistance
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780826366979
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods
Voices of the Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841, Revised Edition
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780228007319
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Mosquito Warrior
Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9780817321932
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Mosquito Warrior
Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780817361426
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Unfurl Those Colors!
McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817361624
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V
The Symphony in the Americas
CA$97.95
ISBN: 9780253067531
Pub Date: January 2024
Americosis
A Nation's Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781990823282
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Sutherland House
Stigma
Marking Skin in the Early Modern World
CA$42.95
ISBN: 9780271094434
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Luis Gerónimo de Oré
The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807180129
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
The Poetics of Fire
Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780826365545
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Christian Interculture
Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780271087801
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Why Rivals Intervene
International Security and Civil Conflict
CA$75.00
ISBN: 9781487508272
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Drawing on historical case studies, this book explains why international rivals intervene in civil conflicts.
After the Postcolonial Caribbean
Memory, Imagination, Hope
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780745347905
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Pluto Press
Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean
Rebels in Arms
Black Resistance and the Fight for Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780820362809
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Contested Territory
Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
CA$135.95
ISBN: 9780268205942
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects.