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Book Openings

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  • Author : Laura Cameron
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780773516663
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Openings written by Laura Cameron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Opening" chapter reflects on the connection between historical and technological frontiers. "Listening for Pleasure" discusses oral histories as they relate to the negotiated and contested space of Sumas Lake. "Margins and Mosquitoes" recovers archival records from Victoria to Ottawa to explore flood-lake involvements federally, provincially, and locally. "Memory Device" moves into the archive of land and waterscapes, looking for connections between place and history, mindful of both Native oral tradition and written accounts of the lake. The concluding chapter, "One More Byte," written from the perspective of a mosquito, attempts to distance this project from the work of modernization while assessing the value of interactive history. An independent but complementary hypermedia essay "Disappearing a Lake" is located on this website (scroll up) at http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/files/cameron_laura http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/files/cameron_laura

Book Beaten Down

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Peterson del Mar
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 0295800453
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Beaten Down written by David Peterson del Mar and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The word “violence” conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force—a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the “better man.” David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence, this “white noise” that has always been with us, humming quietly between more explosive acts of violence. Broad in its chronological and cultural sweep, Beaten Down examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and continuing into the mid-twentieth century. It contrasts the disparate ways of practicing and punishing interpersonal violence on each side of the U.S.-Canadian border. Del Mar concludes that we cannot comprehend the causes and moral consequences of a violent act without considering larger social relations of power, whether between colonizers and original inhabitants, between spouses, between parents and children, or between and among different ethnic groups. The author has drawn on a vast array of vivid sources, including newspaper accounts, autobiographies, novels, oral histories, historical and ethnographic publications, and hundreds of detailed court cases to account for not only the relative frequency of different forms of violence, but also the shifting definitions and perceptions of what constitutes violence. This is a thoughtful and probing account of how and why people have hit each other and the manner in which opinion makers and ordinary citizens have censured, defended, or celebrated such acts. Del Mar’s conclusions have important implications for an understanding of violence and perceptions of violence in contemporary society.

Book British Columbia in Books

Download or read book British Columbia in Books written by Mary Lou Cuddy and published by J.J. Douglas. This book was released on 1974 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of North American Indians  Plateau

Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians Plateau written by William C. Sturtevant and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples in Siberia, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creating The Peaceable Kingdom

Download or read book Creating The Peaceable Kingdom written by Victor Howard and published by East Lansing : Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays vital to the understanding of The Peaceable Kingdom, revealed here as not always peaceable, often mysterious, deadly serious, still good-hearted, dutiful, the good twin to the United States. Topics include: Canada in Vietnam, Quebec Films, Political Leadership, Great Lakes Ecology, Quebec and the United States, Canadian Elections and the American Media, Topographical Poetry and the Quebec Model, Canada U.S. Defense Policy, Arts and the Government, The Last British Settlement in the United States, The Growth of the Detroit-Windsor Border, The Ideal of the Peaceable Kingdom.

Book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library written by Public Archives of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mountains So Sublime

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  • Author : Terry P. Abraham
  • Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Mountains So Sublime written by Terry P. Abraham and published by Calgary : University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features description of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists.

Book Journal of the West

Download or read book Journal of the West written by Lorrin L. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library News Bulletin

Download or read book Library News Bulletin written by Washington State Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book BC Studies

Download or read book BC Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Catalog of the Library and Information Services Division  Shelf List catalog

Download or read book Book Catalog of the Library and Information Services Division Shelf List catalog written by Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plains   Rockies  1800 1865

Download or read book Plains Rockies 1800 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and important bibliographical addition to travel and adventure in the American West, this work expands on the basic reference work in the field, The Plains and the Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, begun by Henry R. Wagner and continued by Charles L. Camp and Robert H. Becker. A direct but independent outgrowth of David A. White's 8-volume series, News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865 (Spokane, Washington, 1996-2001), this bibliography contains accounts discovered during the series' development and production which fit the guidelines of Wagner-Camp and Becker, but that were not included in their listings. Wagner's basic bibliography expanded from 349 items to 700 from its first issue in 1920 to the Becker revision of 1982. This new work adds 120 items to the catalog. The additions proposed emphasize genuine travels, but also include a few historic armchair documents and one piece of fiction. Many are from government documents, some from magazine articles, and a few from the more important and early newspaper accounts. Some promotional tracts are added, as well. The names of those whose sources are listed include Ezekiel Williams (his pioneering journeys to Colorado), John Ball (his earliest printed account of Oregon settlers), William Walker (the 1833 letter that touched off the Oregon missionary movement), Virginia E.B. Reed (her account of the Donner Party, 1847), Julia Archibald Holmes (her letter on her 1858 ascent of Pike's Peak), Gov. James Douglas (his 1858-62 first reports of the Fraser River and Cariboo gold rushes), Theodore Judah (his 1860 defining document for the Central Pacific Railroad), Charles Farrar Browne (humorist Artemus Ward's 1864 travels among the Mormons), and Lucinda Eubank and Nancy Morton (their 1864-65 captivities). The Reprints: A sampling of 33 of the 120 additions to the bibliography, judged to be the more important or appealing, is reprinted here in the format adopted by the News of the Plains series, with detailed introductions by the editor. The items reprinted are the best of the shortest accounts. Many of these short items are also of the greatest historical interest, including the first good record of fur hunting in the Rocky Mountains, the first enunciation of the Great American Desert concept, the first government report on the Missouri fur trade, the first tribute to the explorations of Jedediah Smith, the first article on white women crossing the Rockies, the first notice of Whitman's famous winter ride, the first official Mormon confirmation of their intended Western haven, the first word on Aubry's record horseback ride, the first news of the Gunnison and Grattan massacres, and the first reports of American scientific explorations overland to Alaska. Though independent of the News of the Plains and Rockies series, this volume offers a fine conclusion to the eight volume set, and is designed to complement the series. The book contains an introduction, annotated bibliography, reprints, appendix listings and index, as well as facsimiles and illustrations. Printed on acid-free paper and bound in maroon linen cloth with foil stamped spine and front cover. Issued in an edition of 1000 copies.

Book Canadiana

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers  Trade List Annual

Download or read book The Publishers Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book catalog of the Library and Information Services Division

Download or read book Book catalog of the Library and Information Services Division written by Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: