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Global Asias: Tactics & Theories
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CA$94.00
ISBN: 9780824894061
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge...
In Place of Mobility
Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781469682266
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states.&8239;In Place of Mobility&8239;examines...
On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
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CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496230973
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstream histories on this era of travel.
Timing the Future Metropolis
Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism
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CA$52.95
ISBN: 9781501778391
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Timing the Future Metropolis?an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science?explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal,"...
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780774868884
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
Border of Water and Ice
The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781501777387
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region....
Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
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CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774870399
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
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CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774868877
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Constructing National Identities
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CA$133.95
ISBN: 9781802075137
Pub Date: April 2024
What are the stories that we tell about ourselves and others, and how do those stories contribute to the construction of a collective memory and national identity? The Black Legend?the representation...
Parks Belong to the People
The Geography of the National Park System
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780820365053
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
In examining the 424 units of the U.S. national park system, geographers Joe Weber and Selima Sultana focus attention on the historical geography of the system as well as its present distribution, covering...
Remapping the World in East Asia
Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”
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CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780824895044
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan,...
Invisible Lines
Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
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CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781487012847
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.
Before Canada
Northern North America in a Connected World
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CA$110.00
ISBN: 9780228019206
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars combine to reveal the latest research findings on this fascinating early period.
Before Canada
Northern North America in a Connected World
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780228019213
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars combine to reveal the latest research findings on this fascinating early period.
Histoire des fleuves et Histoire connectée
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CA$67.55
ISBN: 9782875748348
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
Ce livre se fonde sur l’évolution d’une vallée et des villes riveraines de la Meuse dans le temps long et englobe tous les sujets qui touchent à la rivière, pour aboutir à l’étude des cours d’eau entre les Pyrénées et le Rhin. L’intérêt d’une telle analyse réside dans les comparaisons ainsi permises par cette « Histoire connectée ».
Niʻihau Place Names
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CA$113.00
ISBN: 9780824895198
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
The story of Ni‘ihau has been told many times by many people, but Ni‘ihau Place Names adds new information to the island’s history from a unique source: Hawaiian-language newspapers. From 1834...
Global Asias: Tactics & Theories
CA$94.00
ISBN: 9780824894061
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
In Place of Mobility
Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781469682266
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496230973
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Timing the Future Metropolis
Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism
CA$52.95
ISBN: 9781501778391
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780774868884
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
Border of Water and Ice
The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781501777387
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774870399
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774868877
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Constructing National Identities
CA$133.95
ISBN: 9781802075137
Pub Date: April 2024
Parks Belong to the People
The Geography of the National Park System
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780820365053
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Remapping the World in East Asia
Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9780824895044
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Invisible Lines
Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781487012847
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.
Before Canada
Northern North America in a Connected World
CA$110.00
ISBN: 9780228019206
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars combine to reveal the latest research findings on this fascinating early period.
Before Canada
Northern North America in a Connected World
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780228019213
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars combine to reveal the latest research findings on this fascinating early period.
Histoire des fleuves et Histoire connectée
CA$67.55
ISBN: 9782875748348
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
Ce livre se fonde sur l’évolution d’une vallée et des villes riveraines de la Meuse dans le temps long et englobe tous les sujets qui touchent à la rivière, pour aboutir à l’étude des cours d’eau entre les Pyrénées et le Rhin. L’intérêt d’une telle analyse réside dans les comparaisons ainsi permises par cette « Histoire connectée ».
Niʻihau Place Names
CA$113.00
ISBN: 9780824895198
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press