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2. 'Never be Dull': Girl Guides of Canada performing physical culture and gymnastics drills in 1910–21.
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Frey, Heather Fitzsimmons
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In their first decade of operation in Canada, Canadian Girl Guides presented numerous performances, primarily as fundraisers, to raise money for the Red Cross or to go to camp. Their performances included a great deal of variety, and often gymnastics drills. While critics suggest that these drills were joyless affairs, girls chose to do them, and many probably took pleasure and pride in developing the choreography and performing them well. Preliminary research with twenty-first-century girls shows that developing the drills can be a lot of fun, and that the movement vocabulary has considerable creative potential. Performing the drills in early twentieth-century communities could challenge expectations about differences between boys and girls while demonstrating girls' strength, emphasize a hopeful future full of healthy (probably white) girls who would become healthy mothers, and encourage audiences to think about unity. In the early twentieth century, Guides would have been unlikely to have seen a professional physical culture drill. With no professional counterpart, girls could not really be amateurs, but it is important that girls probably had to imagine the best drill possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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3. The Evolution of Remote Sensing Education in Canada's Universities and Colleges: Decades of Innovation and Expansion.
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LeDrew, Ellsworth and Ryerson, Robert
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REMOTE sensing ,DISTANCE education ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,ACTIVE learning ,NATURAL resources - Abstract
Copyright of Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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4. Physical Culture Drills and Alberta Girls Stepping Together Across Time.
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Frey, Heather Fitzsimmons and Kerekes, Jenna
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PHYSICAL education ,COVID-19 pandemic ,GENDER inequality ,TEENAGE girls ,GIRLS - Abstract
By embodying movement vocabulary and physical culture drills drawn from a 1911 textbook of physical exercises, in this girl-centred research project we examined how Alberta girls (aged 7 to 22) during the COVID-19 pandemic challenged ideas about Alberta settler girls who lived 100 years ago. Using performance-based historiography as a methodology, participants explored what embodying physical culture movement vocabulary could reveal about archives, past girls, and themselves. Debriefing led to insights concerning relevant social issues, such as gender equity, and current experiences like a growing appreciation for pre-pandemic community-oriented life. In asking provocative questions about the past, these girls demonstrated their potential to shift perceptions of how historically located and contemporary girls are imagined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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5. The Capacity Trend Method: A new approach for enumerating the Newfoundland cod fisheries (1675–1790).
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Nicholls, John, Allaire, Bernard, and Holm, Poul
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FISHERIES - Abstract
We apply a novel methodology to the study of the Newfoundland cod fisheries in order to determine a reasoned and acceptable chronological value series for total catch amounts in the early modern period where data are scarce. The paper focuses on the two main protagonists in the Newfoundland fisheries arena in that period: France and England. The period 1675–1790 has been selected as a viable and representative chronology for a case study where data, while available in part, are limited and often missing. The new methodology proposed here enables further exploration, input and assessment such that an ever-greater level of accuracy, integrity and robustness may be achieved in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. Catherine Mulaire, née Lacerte (1843-1922): enseignante métisse laïque du Manitoba.
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MULAIRE, Bernard
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- 2021
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7. That UFO book
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olivier and olivier
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Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
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- 2021
8. Tinker, Mapper, Soldier, Spy – Captain Henry Elsdale's Pioneering 1882–83 Experiment with Small Balloons and Vertical Aerial Photography in Halifax, Canada.
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Werle, Dirk
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AERIAL photography ,AERIAL photographs ,MILITARY surveillance ,BALLOONS ,MILITARY personnel ,ECHO-planar imaging - Abstract
Copyright of Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2019
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9. Proliferation and the Logic of the Nuclear Market.
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Gheorghe, Eliza
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PROLIFERATION Security Initiative ,MARKET share ,NUCLEAR nonproliferation ,NATIONAL security ,NUCLEAR weapons - Abstract
The evolution of the nuclear market explains why there are only nine members of the nuclear club, not twenty-five or more, as some analysts predicted. In the absence of a supplier cartel that can regulate nuclear transfers, the more suppliers there are, the more intense their competition will be, as they vie for market share. This commercial rivalry makes it easier for nuclear technology to spread, because buyers can play suppliers off against each other. The ensuing transfers help countries either acquire nuclear weapons or become hedgers. The great powers (China, Russia, and the United States) seek to thwart proliferation by limiting transfers and putting safeguards on potentially dangerous nuclear technologies. Their success depends on two structural factors: the global distribution of power and the intensity of the security rivalry among them. Thwarters are most likely to stem proliferation when the system is unipolar and least likely when it is multipolar. In bipolarity, their prospects fall somewhere in between. In addition, the more intense the rivalry among the great powers in bipolarity and multipolarity, the less effective they will be at curbing proliferation. Given the potential for intense security rivalry among today's great powers, the shift from unipolarity to multipolarity does not portend well for checking proliferation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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10. Through the Dąbrowski Lens: Philosophy, Faith, and the Personality Ideal.
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Harper, Amanda J. and Clifford, Christine
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PHILOSOPHY ,FAITH ,PERSONALITY ,ETHICS ,SOCIAL consciousness - Abstract
Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s (1902–1980) five-level theory of personality development, the Theory of Positive Disintegration, is one in which the experience of all emotions is essential for the process of individual growth toward the personality ideal. In this article, we introduce the phenomenological and existential influences on Dąbrowski, including the influence of Søren Kierkegaard. We also examine Dąbrowski’s reflections on faith, Christianity, God, and human purpose, with particular reference to his unpublished manuscript,Confessions of Faith in Thoughts and Aphorisms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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11. A SHORT HISTORY OF BUNGALOW A ST STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.
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BANHAM, TONY
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CONCENTRATION camps - Abstract
Copyright of Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong is the property of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2017
12. Hydraulic Imperialism: Hydroelectric Development and Treaty 9 in the Abitibi Region.
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Macfarlane, Daniel and Kitay, Peter
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WATER power ,WATER resources development ,RIVERS ,DAMS ,ENVIRONMENTAL history ,ECONOMIC development & the environment - Abstract
This study aims to untangle the knot of treaty-making, industrialization, and hydroelectric development in the Lake Abitibi region in northeastern Ontario by examining the extent to which industrialist discourses on waterways influenced changes to the physical and political landscape. An analysis of events leading up to the signing of Treaty No. 9 in 1906, and then the Abitibi River hydroelectric dams and concomitant flooding of Lake Abitibi in 1914–15 made possible by the treaty, is provided. Changes to Lake Abitibi during this period are evidence of a process of hydraulic imperialism whereby the Canadian state used waterways to exercise control of the James Bay watershed and encourage industrial and agricultural development in northeastern Ontario in the early twentieth century. This process not only contextualized the state’s understanding of Treaty No. 9 but is further evidence of inherent ambiguities concerning First Nations reserves around Lake Abitibi created by the treaty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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13. Odd Woman, Odd Girls: Reconsidering How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire: The Handbook for Girl Guides and Early Guiding Practices, 1909-1918.
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Magyarody, Katherine
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- 2016
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14. Imperial Nostalgia, Social Ghosts, and Canada’s National War Memorial.
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Davidson, Tonya
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NOSTALGIA & society ,WAR memorials ,WORLD War I ,ALLEGIANCE ,DEVIANT behavior - Abstract
The National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada, occupies a central ceremonial square in the capital city. Placed in 1939 to commemorate Canada’s involvement in World War I, the monument is the featured element of the national Remembrance Day services, and it is often visited by dignitaries and bestowed wreaths. In this article, I suggest that beyond offering mere instruction in the history of Canada’s World War I involvement, the National War Memorial produces potent lessons in how to feel about being Canadian, and how to mourn as a Canadian. In particular, the National War Memorial has become a conduit for articulations of imperial nostalgia; it compels persuasive, ritual allegiance to Canada’s imperial White settler past. These affective relationships are produced with such success that other identifications—or the proposal of alternative meanings of the monument—are understood as acts of deviance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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15. Music For Children - Carl Orff Canada - Musique pour enfants National Archives / Les archives de COC Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music / Pavillon de musique University of Manitoba / L'université du Manitoba Taché Hall.
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ORFF-Schulwerk (Music education) ,NATIONAL archives - Published
- 2017
16. Fostering Resistance, Cultivating Decolonization: The Intersection of Canadian Colonial History and Contemporary Arts Programming With Inuit Youth.
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Schwan, Kaitlin Jessica and Lightman, Ernie
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SOCIAL services ,INDIGENOUS youth ,ACCULTURATION ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) ,DECOLONIZATION ,RESISTANCE (Philosophy) ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
The article offers information on the study which analyzes the importance of understanding the relation of social service programs for indigenous youth with colonial history. It discusses the contradictory and complex role of a social service program in cultural preservation, assimilation, and acculturation. Also mentioned are the benefits of the program in fostering decolonization and the maladaptive behavior or acts of resistance of youths on the program.
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- 2015
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17. Awards, Honours, and Accomplishments.
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MUSIC education awards ,AWARDS - Abstract
The article announces that Kristi Grunsten Yonda received a special plaque for her service on the Manitoba Orff Chapter Executive, and Jewel Casselman received the Morna-June Morrow Award for Excellence in Music Education.
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- 2015
18. Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
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Atkinson, Alan and Atkinson, Alan
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••Winner, 2023 Ernest Scott Prize •• ••Winner, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize•• ••Shortlisted, 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Australian History Prize•• A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians. Elizabeth and John Macarthur were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, arriving in 1790, both aged 23, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's. In the multi-award-winning Elizabeth and John, acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson draws on his work on the Macarthur family over 50 years to explore the dynamics of their strong and sinewy marriage, and family life across two generations. With the truth of Elizabeth and John Macarthur's relationship much more complex and deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership. ‘Based on fifty years of research and reflection by one of this country's most original and creative scholars and finest writers, here is the story of the world made by settler Australia's greatest family, the Macarthurs. No Australian historian has ever explored the inner lives of a married couple, their family and their milieu with such skill, passion and intensity. No one has brought to any subject in Australian history deeper insight into dreams, ambitions and tragedy that the British occupation of this continent entailed. Elizabeth and John is a stunning achievement by one of Australia's greatest-ever historians.'– Frank Bongiorno ‘Professor Atkinson's portrait is intimate and affectionate. It reads well while maintaining the highest standards of academic rigour.'– The Canberra Times ‘Through this remarkable study of two key figures in the history of early colonial New South Wales and especially of their marriage, Alan Atkinson here conducts a master class in connecting the personal, the intimate and the local with worldwide processes of colonisation, migration and capitalist expansion. In his capacious historical vision, family life and connections in all their complexity become the thread that holds colonial history, and perhaps history generally, together.'– Ann Curthoys ‘This magisterial work takes us into a captivating world of 19th-century Australia through a compelling, eloquent, and beautifully drawn study of the remarkable lives of John and Elizabeth Macarthur.'– Joy Damousi ‘Nobody sees as far into the minds and hearts of the early Australian colonists as Alan Atkinson. In this fascinating double-portrait, based on a lifetime's research, he reveals Australia's first power-couple as never before: together and apart; as they saw themselves and as they were seen by their friends and enemies; at the apex of a fast-developing colony and at the far edge of global networks of family affection, commercial ambition and imperial power. A tour de force of scholarship, imagination, and literary power.'– Graeme Davison ‘With trademark lyricism, Alan Atkinson builds a rich and moving picture of the social, intellectual and material world of the Macarthurs. Elizabeth and John transforms our understanding of early New South Wales and two of its most significant figures.'– Lisa Ford ‘The Macarthurs have long been the subjects of caricature, even wilful distortion. In this superb book, Alan Atkinson has restored their humanity, exploring their characters, their relationships between themselves and with others, the ideas and influences that shaped them and how they in turn helped shape colonial Australia. This is history at its best, based on vast research and deep understanding.'– Stephen Foster ‘This was evidently a labour of love a
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- 2024
19. Criminalized Lives : HIV and Legal Violence
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Alexander McClelland and Alexander McClelland
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- HIV infections--Law and legislation--Canada --, Sexually transmitted diseases--Law and legislati, HIV-positive persons--Legal status, laws, etc. -, AIDS (Disease)--Transmission--Canada, Liability (Law)--Canada, Violence (Law)--Canada
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Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one's HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has disproportionately harmed the poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada. In this book, people who have been criminally accused of not disclosing their HIV-positive status, detail the many complexities of disclosure, and the violence that results from being criminalized. Accompanied by portraits from artist Eric Kostiuk Williams, the profiles examine whether the criminal legal system is really prepared to handle the nuances and ethical dilemmas faced everyday by people living with HIV. By offering personal stories of people who have faced criminalization first-hand, Alexander McClelland questions common assumptions about HIV, the role of punishment, and the violence that results from the criminal legal system's legacy of categorizing people as either victims or perpetrators. Note: A regrettable error appears on page 22. The number 240 should be 206 when referring to the number of people prosecuted in relation to allegations of HIV nondisclosure. This will be fixed in future reprints.
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- 2024
20. The Gambler and the Scholars : Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology
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John F. Dooley and John F. Dooley
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- Military intelligence--United States--History--20th century, Cryptography--United States--History--20th century
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In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German diplomatic and military communications. In June 1917, Herbert Yardley convinced the new head of the Army's Military Intelligence Division to create a code and cipher section for the Army with himself as its head. These two seminal events were the beginning of modern American cryptology, the growth of which culminated 35 years later with the creation of the National Security Agency. Each running their own cryptologic agencies in the 1920s, the Friedman-Yardley relationship was shattered after Yardley published a tell-all book about his time in military intelligence. Yet in the end, the work they all started in 1917 led directly to the modern American intelligence community. As they got older, they became increasingly irrelevant in the burgeoning American cryptologic fraternity. Topics and features: • Examines the lives of three remarkable and pioneering cryptologists • Offers fascinating insights into spies, codes and ciphers, rumrunners, poker, and military history • Sheds new light on interesting parts of the cryptologists'careers—especially Elizebeth Friedman, whose work during World War II has just begun to be explored • Recounts several good stories, i.e., What if the Friedmans had gone to work for Herbert Yardley in his new Cipher Bureau in 1919? What if Yardley had moved back to Washington to work for William Friedman a decade later? This enjoyable book has wide appeal for: general readers interested in the evolution of American cryptology, American historians (particularly of World War I, the inter-war period, and World War II signals intelligence), and historians of—and general readers interested in—American military intelligence. It also can be used as an auxiliary text or recommended reading in introductory or survey courses in history or on the related topics.
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- 2023
21. Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine : The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike
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Leigh Campbell-Hale and Leigh Campbell-Hale
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- Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Colorado--Weld County, Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Weld County, Coal Strike, Colo., 1927--History, Massacres--Colorado--Weld County
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Mining the American West Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States. While historians have written prolifically about the 1914 Ludlow Massacre, there has been a lack of attention to the violent event remembered now as the Columbine Massacre in which police shot and killed six striking coal miners and wounded sixty more protestors during the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike, even though its aftermath exerted far more influence upon subsequent national labor policies. This volume is a comparative biography of three key participants before, during, and after the strike: A. S. Embree, the IWW strike leader; Josephine Roche, the owner of the coal mine property where the Columbine Massacre took place; and Powers Hapgood, who came to work for Roche four months after she signed the 1928 United Mine Worker's contract. The author demonstrates the significance of this event to national debates about labor during the period, as well as changes and continuities in labor history starting in the progressive era and continuing with 1930s New Deal labor policies and through the 1980s. This examination of the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike reorients understandings of labor history from the 1920s through the 1960s and the construction of public memory—and forgetting—surrounding those events. Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine appeals to academic and general readers interested in Colorado history, labor history, mining history, gender studies, memory, and historiography.
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- 2023
22. The Seven Nations of Canada 1660-1860 : Solidarity, Vision and Independence in the St. Lawrence Valley
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Fred Wiseman, Jean-Pierre Sawaya, Fred Wiseman, and Jean-Pierre Sawaya
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- Indigenous peoples--Canada--History, Indigenous peoples--Que´bec (Province)--History
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Wendake, Odanak, Wô linak, Pointe-du-Lac, Kahnawake, Kanesatake, Akwesasne, Kitigan Zibi are communities located all along the St. Lawrence River valley and its tributaries. They have been home to descendants of the Huron-Wendat, Algonquin, Nipissing, and Iroquois nations. These First Nations have in common the fact that their ancestors were allies of the French and had converted to Christianity. Historians have ignored these nations described as “ domiciled Indians” (“ sauvages domicilié s”) by the French administrators. Jean-Pierre Sawaya carefully studied how an alliance of such diverse “ missions” was created, developed and conducted to become The Seven Nations of Canada. How did this confederation come about? Who took part and what were their roles? The answers are mined in the massive colonial archives. Seven Fires is original research at its best, combining detailed analysis and systematic investigation, that has enabled the author to dispel the tenacious colonial myth about irrational, submissive, and fatalistic Indigenous peoples. Readers will discover forward-looking people motivated by a deep desire for independence and solidarity.
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- 2023
23. Handbook of Research on Coping Mechanisms for First-Year Students Transitioning to Higher Education
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Peter Jo Aloka, Kananga Robert Mukuna, Peter Jo Aloka, and Kananga Robert Mukuna
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- College freshmen--United States--Psychology, Adjustment (Psychology), Stress management
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Transitioning from secondary to higher education is not a natural step for many first-year students in higher education institutions. There is a considerable difference between being a student at school and university, and previous research has highlighted the difficulties faced by first-year university students during their transition phase. Higher education institutions and their departments acknowledge the challenges faced by new students, and they differ in their approach to coping with the issue; each seeks to find the most effective solution for its students. To reduce the withdrawal rate during the first year of college, higher education providers are expected to apply transition programs to help students transition. The Handbook of Research on Coping Mechanisms for First-Year Students Transitioning to Higher Education presents a comprehensive account of the dynamics in higher education institutions and culture shock for new students and analyzes models and theories of adjustment of new students in higher education institutions. Covering key topics such as gender, institutional support, and success factors, this reference work is ideal for administrators, higher education professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
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- 2023
24. The Liberty to Take Fish : Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America
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Thomas Blake Earle and Thomas Blake Earle
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- Fisheries--Political aspects--History--18th, Fisheries--Political aspects--History--19th, Fisheries--History--18th century.--North Atl, Fisheries--History--19th century.--North Atl, Fishery policy--History--18th century.--Nort, Fishery policy--History--19th century.--Nort
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In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between the young United States and powerful Great Britain. The American Revolution left the United States with the'liberty to take fish'from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable to the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world dominated by Great Britain. The fisheries issue was a near-constant concern in American statecraft that impinged upon everything, from Anglo-American relations, to the operation of American federalism, and even to the nature of the marine environment. Earle explores the relationship between the fisheries and the state through the Civil War era when closer ties between the United States and Great Britain finally surpassed the contentious interests of the fishing industry on the nation's agenda.The Liberty to Take Fish is a rich story that moves from the staterooms of Washington and London to the decks of fishing schooners and into the Atlantic itself to understand how ordinary fishermen and the fish they pursued shaped and were, in turn, shaped by those far-off political and economic forces. Earle returns fishing to its once-central place in American history and shows that the nation of the nineteenth century was indeed a maritime one.
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- 2023
25. Elizabeth and John : The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
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Alan Atkinson and Alan Atkinson
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- Sheep farming--Australia--New South Wales--History--19th century, Pioneers--Australia--Biography
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A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians. Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's. In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Macarthur family over the last 50 years to explore the dynamics of a strong and sinewy marriage, and family life over two generations. With the truth of John and Elizabeth Macarthur's relationship much more complicated and more deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.
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- 2022
26. Working for Canada : A Pilgrimage in Foreign Affairs From the New World Order to the Rise of Populism
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Geoff White and Geoff White
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An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990–2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of creating and enacting international policy. Writing with clarity, wit, and common sense, White demystifies Canadian diplomacy and provides a clear view of how it actually works—and when it doesn't. Reflecting on the headlines, highlights, and sometimes scandals of a long and successful career, White offers a highly readable blend of personal recollection and political insight. He begins with his first assignment in communications planning during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and continues through the establishment of NAFTA, humanitarian intervention in Kosovo, softwood lumber, during assignments at headquarters and in Canadian embassies abroad. He shares his experiences of negotiating aviation agreements with foreign governments, and of diplomatic efforts aimed at restoring and protecting human rights. Working for Canada is a fascinating memoir tracing a career spent in the service of Canada and Canadians. At the same time, it provides an unparalleled insider view into communications, negotiations, international trade, and diplomacy.
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- 2022
27. Riding Jane Crow : African American Women on the American Railroad
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Miriam Thaggert and Miriam Thaggert
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- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc, Railroad travel--United States--History, African American women--United States--History
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Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to'ride Jim Crow'on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class'ladies'cars'; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or'progress,'through her travel experiences.
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- 2022
28. Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan
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David A. Conrad and David A. Conrad
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- Motion pictures--Japan--History--20th century
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The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, military films, medical dramas and art films. His movies are beloved for their timeless protagonists and haunting vistas of old Japan, but we haven't yet fully grasped everything they can teach us about modern Japan. Kurosawa's films evolved as Japan redefined and reinvented itself, from movies made for the wartime regime to those made amid the trials of American occupation. From the lavish epics of the economic miracle years to searching masterpieces made with international assistance in a globalizing world, Kurosawa's movies responded to changing times. This detailed study of all 30 of Kurosawa's films analyzes the links between the thrilling narratives onscreen and the equally remarkable events that occurred in Japan over his long, productive career. This book explores how Kurosawa's classics depict the political, economic, cultural, sexual and environmental upheavals of a nation at the center of a turbulent century, both directly and through period-piece mythmaking.
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- 2022
29. Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership : The Six Nations Since 1800
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Laurence M. Hauptman and Laurence M. Hauptman
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- Leadership--North America, Iroquois Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography
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In Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership, Laurence M. Hauptman traces the past 200 years of the Six Nations'history through the lens of the remarkable leaders who shaped it. Focusing on the distinct qualities of Iroquois leadership, Hauptman reveals how the Six Nations have survived in the face of overwhelming pressure. Celebrated figures such as Governor Blacksnake, Cornelius Cusick, and Deskaheh are juxtaposed with less well-known but nonetheless influential champions of Iroquoian culture and sovereignty such as Dinah John. Hauptman's survey includes over thirty contemporary women, highlighting the important role female leaders have played in Iroquois survival throughout history to the present day. The book offers historical and contemporary portraits of leaders from all six Iroquois nations and all regions of modern-day Iroquoia.
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- 2022
30. Borderland Blacks : Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery
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dann j. Broyld and dann j. Broyld
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- Transnationalism--History--19th century, Black people--Ontario--St. Catharines--Social conditions--19th century, Borderlands--Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.)--History--19th century, African Americans--New York (State)--Rochester--Social conditions--19th century
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Winner of the OHS Fred Landon AwardIn the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women's rights, and temperance. Moreover, these urban centers were home to sizable free Black communities as well as an array of individuals engaged in the abolitionist movement, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Anthony Burns, and Hiram Wilson. dann j. Broyld's Borderland Blacks explores the status and struggles of transient Blacks within this dynamic zone, where the cultures and interests of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the African Diaspora overlapped.Blacks in the two cities shared newspapers, annual celebrations, religious organizations, and kinship and friendship ties. Too often, historians have focused on the one-way flow of fugitives on the Underground Railroad from America to Canada when in fact the situation on the ground was far more fluid, involving two-way movement and social collaborations. Black residents possessed transnational identities and strategically positioned themselves near the American-Canadian border where immigration and interaction occurred. Borderland Blacks reveals that physical separation via formalized national barriers did not sever concepts of psychological memory or restrict social ties. Broyld investigates how the times and terms of emancipation affected Blacks on each side of the border, including their use of political agency to pit the United States and British Canada against one another for the best possible outcomes.
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- 2022
31. Change in Global Environmental Politics : Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions
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Michael W. Manulak and Michael W. Manulak
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- Environmental protection--Political aspects, Environmental management, Environmental policy--International cooperation
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As wildfires rage, pollution thickens, and species disappear, the world confronts environmental crisis with a set of global institutions in urgent need of reform. Yet, these institutions have proved frustratingly resistant to change. Introducing the concept of Temporal Focal Points, Manulak shows how change occurs in world politics. By re-envisioning the role of timing and temporality in social relations, his analysis presents a new approach to understanding transformative phases in international cooperation. We may now be entering such a phase, he argues, and global actors must be ready to realize the opportunities presented. Charting the often colorful and intensely political history of change in global environmental politics, this book sheds new light on the actors and institutions that shape humanity's response to planetary decline. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of international relations, international organization and environmental politics and history.
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- 2022
32. No Globalization Without Representation : U.S. Activists and World Inequality
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Paul Adler and Paul Adler
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- Environmentalism--United States--History--20th century, Anti-globalization movement--United States--History, Social movements--Political aspects--United States, Social participation--United States
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Amid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader, organizations of lawyers and experts worked'inside the system.'They confronted corporate power and helped win major consumer and environmental protections. By the late 1970s, some public interest groups moved beyond U.S. borders to challenge multinational corporations. This happened at the same time that neoliberalism, a politics of empowerment for big business, gained strength in the U.S. and around the world.No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close. NGOs like Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen helped forge a progressive coalition that lobbied against the emerging neoliberal world order and in favor of what they called'fair globalization.'From boycotting Nestlé in the 1970s to lobbying against NAFTA to the'Battle of Seattle'protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, these groups have made a profound mark.This book tells their stories while showing how public interest groups helped ensure that a version of liberalism willing to challenge corporate power did not vanish from U.S. politics. Public interest groups believed that preserving liberalism at home meant confronting attempts to perpetuate conservative policies through global economic rules. No Globalization Without Representation also illuminates how professionalized organizations became such a critical part of liberal activism—and how that has affected the course of U.S. politics to the present day.
- Published
- 2021
33. 'Don't Shoot, G-Men!' : The FBI Crime War, 1933-1939
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Michael Newton and Michael Newton
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- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--, TRUE CRIME / General
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Between 1933 and 1939, the FBI pursued an aggressive, highly publicized nationwide campaign against a succession of Depression era'public enemies,'including John Dillinger, George'Baby Face'Nelson, Charles Arthur'Pretty Boy'Floyd, George'Machine Gun Kelly'Barnes, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and the Ma Barker Gang. Bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover's successes in this crusade made him the hero of law and order in the public mind. This historical analysis reveals the agency's often illegal tactics, including torture, frame-ups, and summary executions--later expanded throughout Hoover's 48-year reign in Washington, D.C., and exposed only after his death (some say murder) in 1972.
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- 2021
34. Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games : International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO
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Heather L. Dichter and Heather L. Dichter
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- Olympics--Economic aspects, Olympics--Political aspects, Olympic host city selection--1968, Sports and state--History--20th century, World politics--1945-1989, Cold War--Influence
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Winner of the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize from the British Society of Sports History During the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 further exacerbated these pressures, with East German teams denied travel to several world championships. These tensions would only intensify in the run-up to the 1968 Olympics. In Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games, Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to political interference. Drawing on archival materials from NATO, foreign ministries, domestic and international sport functionaries, and newspapers, Dichter examines controversies surrounding the 1968 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, particularly the bidding process between countries to host the events. As she demonstrates, during the Cold War sport and politics became so intertwined that they had the power to fundamentally transform each other.
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- 2021
35. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems
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Jessica Duncan, Michael Carolan, Johannes S.C. Wiskerke, Jessica Duncan, Michael Carolan, and Johannes S.C. Wiskerke
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- Food security, Food supply, Sustainable agriculture
- Abstract
This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food practices.The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges related to the ways we grow, distribute, access, eat, and dispose of food. Yet, there are stories of hope and opportunities for radical change towards food systems that enhance the ability of living things to co-evolve. Given this, activities and imaginaries looking to improve, rather than just sustain, communities and ecosystems are needed, as are fresh perspectives and new terminology. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems addresses this need. The chapters cover diverse practices, geographies, scales, and entry-points. They focus not only on the core requirements to deliver sustainable agriculture and food supply, but go beyond this to think about how these can also actively participate with social-ecological systems. The book is presented in an accessible way, with reflection questions meant to spark discussion and debate on how to transition to safe, just, and healthy food systems. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook highlight the consequences of current food practices and showcase the multiple ways that people are doing food differently.The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems is essential reading for students and scholars interested in food systems, governance and practices, agroecology, rural sociology, and socio-environmental studies.
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- 2021
36. Art of Sharing : The Richer Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
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Mary Janigan and Mary Janigan
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- Transfer payments--Canada--History
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In 1957 after a century of scathing debates and threats of provincial separation Ottawa finally tackled the dangerous fiscal inequalities among its richer and poorer provinces. Equalization grants allowed the poorer provinces to provide relatively equal services for relatively equal levels of taxation. The Art of Sharing tells the dramatic history of Canada's efforts to save itself. The introduction of federal equalization grants was controversial and wealthier provinces such as Alberta – wanting to keep more of their taxpayers'money for their own governments – continue to attack them today. Mary Janigan argues that the elusive ideal of fiscal equity in spite of dissent from richer provinces has helped preserve Canada as a united nation. Janigan goes back to Confederation to trace the escalating tensions among the provinces across decades as voters demanded more services to survive in a changing world. She also uncovers the continuing contacts between Canada and Australia as both dominions struggled to placate disgruntled member states and provinces that blamed the very act of federation for their woes. By the mid-twentieth century trapped between the demands of social activists and Quebec's insistence on its right to run its own social programs Ottawa adopted non-conditional grants in compromise. The history of equalization in Canada has never been fully explored. Introducing the idealistic Canadians who fought for equity along with their radically different proposals to achieve it The Art of Sharing makes the case that a willingness to share financial resources is the real tie that has bound the federation together into the twenty-first century.
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- 2020
37. Colonial Forts of the Champlain and Hudson Valleys : Sentinels of Wood & Stone
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Michael G. Laramie and Michael G. Laramie
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- Fortification--History.--New France, Fortification--History.--Champlain Valley, Fortification--History.--Hudson River Valley (
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From Montreal to New York City, the rivers and lakes of the Hudson and Champlain Valleys carved a path through the primeval forests of the Northeast. The rival French and English colonies on either end built strategic strongholds there throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The establishment of Fort St. Frederic at Crown Point gave the French command over the vital Lake Champlain. The French and Indian War saw the construction of frontier forts such as the English Fort William Henry at the headwaters of Lake George. Fortifications sometimes changed hands and names, such as when French-built Fort Carillon became the famed Fort Ticonderoga after a successful English siege. Author Michael G. Laramie charts the attempts to secure the most important chain of waterways in early North America.
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- 2020
38. Soviet Defectors
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Kevin Riehle and Kevin Riehle
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- Intelligence officers--Soviet Union--History--20th century, Defectors--Soviet Union--History--20th century, Intelligence service--History--20th century
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When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.
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- 2020
39. Give and Take : Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa
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Nitsan Chorev and Nitsan Chorev
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- Drug factories--Africa, East, Economic assistance--Africa, East, Pharmaceutical industry--Africa, East, Industrialization--Africa, East, Drug factories--Uganda, Drug factories--Tanzania, Drug factories--Kenya
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Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development. While foreign aid has been attacked by critics as wasteful, counterproductive, or exploitative, Nitsan Chorev makes a clear case for the effectiveness of what she terms “developmental foreign aid.”Against the backdrop of Africa's pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, the battle against AIDS and malaria, and bitter negotiations over affordable drugs, Chorev offers an important corrective to popular views on foreign aid and development. She shows that when foreign aid has provided markets, monitoring, and mentoring, it has supported the emergence and upgrading of local production. In instances where donors were willing to procure local drugs, they created new markets that gave local entrepreneurs an incentive to produce new types of drugs. In turn, when donors enforced exacting standards as a condition to access those markets, they gave these producers an incentive to improve quality standards. And where technical know-how was not readily available and donors provided mentoring, local producers received the guidance necessary for improving production processes.Without losing sight of domestic political-economic conditions, historical legacies, and foreign aid's own internal contradictions, Give and Take presents groundbreaking insights into the conditions under which foreign aid can be effective.
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- 2020
40. Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall
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Macfarlane, Daniel and Macfarlane, Daniel
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- Water-power--Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
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Long considered a natural wonder, the world's most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.
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- 2020
41. Making Another World Possible : 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects
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Corina L. Apostol, Nato Thompson, Corina L. Apostol, and Nato Thompson
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- Art and social action--History--21st century, Arts and society--History--21st century
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Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning, pedagogy, and ecology.Part I of the book introduces the reader to the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present, offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and, in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture.Of interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of socially engaged art.
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- 2020
42. Archives and Special Collections As Sites of Contestation
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Kandiuk, Mary and Kandiuk, Mary
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- Archives--Social aspects, Libraries--Social aspects, Libraries and society, Libraries--Special collections, Electronic books
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'Explores the reinterpretation and resituating of archives and special collections held by libraries, examines the development and stewardship of archives and special collections within a social justice framework, and describes the use of critical practice by libraries and librarians to shape and negotiate the acquisition, cataloguing, promotion and use of archives and special collections'--
- Published
- 2020
43. The First Wave : The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
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Alex Kershaw and Alex Kershaw
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- Soldiers--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy, Commando troops--Biography
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Against All Odds, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock... Fast-paced and up close, this is history's greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can.”—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as a French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond. Readers will experience the sheer grit of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc and the astonishing courage of the airborne soldiers who captured the Merville Gun Battery in the face of devastating enemy counterattacks. The first to fight when the stakes were highest and the odds longest, these men would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler's fortress Europe—and the very history of the twentieth century. The result is an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw's remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on World War II's longest day.Praise for The First Wave:“Masterful... readers will feel the sting of the cold surf, smell the acrid cordite that hung in the air, and duck the zing of machine-gun bullets whizzing overhead. The First Wave is an absolute triumph.”—James M. Scott, bestselling author of Target Tokyo“These pages ooze with the unforgettable human drama of history's most consequential invasion.”—John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die
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- 2019
44. Museum of Nonhumanity
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Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja, Laura Gustafsson, and Terike Haapoja
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- Human beings--Animal nature, Animals (Philosophy), Animal rights--Moral and ethical aspects, Human-animal relationships
- Abstract
Museum of Nonhumanity is the catalogue for a full-size touring museum that presents the history of the distinction between humans and animals, and the way that this artificial boundary has been used to oppress human and nonhuman beings over long historical periods. Throughout history, declaring a group to be nonhuman or subhuman has been an effective tool for justifying slavery, oppression, medical experimentation, genocide, and other forms of violence against those deemed “other.” Conversely, differentiating humans from other species has paved the way for the abuse of natural resources and other animals. Museum of Nonhumanity approaches animalization as a nexus that connects xenophobia, sexism, racism, transphobia, and the abuse of nature and other animals. The touring museum hosts lecture programs in which local civil rights and animal rights organizations, academics, artists, and activists propose paths to a more inclusive society through intersectional approaches. The museum also hosts a pop-up book shop and a vegan café. As a temporary, utopian institution, Museum of Nonhumanity stands as a monument to the call to make animalization history.
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- 2019
45. For Home and Empire: Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand During the First World War
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Marti, Steve and Marti, Steve
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- World War, 1914-1918--Canada, World War, 1914-1918--New Zealand, Military service, Voluntary--Canada--History--20th century, Military service, Voluntary--Australia--History--20th century, World War, 1914-1918--Australia, Military service, Voluntary--New Zealand--History--20th century
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For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti shows that collective acts of patriotism strengthened communal bonds, while reinforcing class, race, and gender boundaries. Which jurisdiction should provide for a soldier's wife if she moved from Hobart to northern Tasmania? Should Welsh women in Vancouver purchase comforts for hometown soldiers or Welsh ones? Should Māori enlist with a local or an Indigenous battalion? Such questions highlighted the diverging interests of local communities, the dominion governments, and the Empire. Marti applies a settler colonial framework to reveal the geographical and social divides that separated communities as they organized for war.
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- 2019
46. Children at War, 1914–1918
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Vivien Newman and Vivien Newman
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- World War, 1914-1918--Children
- Abstract
The author of We Also Served examines what life was like for children during World War I. For most British readers, the phrase “children during the war” conjures up images of the evacuees of the Second World War. Somehow, surprisingly, the children of the Great War have been largely and unjustifiably overlooked. However, this book takes readers to the heart of the Children's War 1914-1918. The age range covered, from birth to 17 years, as well as the richness of children's own writings and the breadth of English, French, and German primary and secondary sources, allows readers to experience wartime childhood and adolescence from multiple, multi-national standpoints. These include: British infants in the nursery; German children at school; French and Belgian youngsters living with the enemy in their occupied homelands; Australian girls and boys knitting socks for General Birdwood, (Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Imperial Force); Girl Guides working for MI5; youthful Ukrainian/Canadians wrongfully interned; German children held as prisoners of war in Siberia; teenage deckhands on the Lusitania; not to mention the rebellious underage Cossack girl who served throughout the war on the Eastern Front, as well as the youngest living recipient of the VC. At times humorous, at others terrifying, this book totally alters perceptions of what it was like to be young in the First World War. Readers will marvel at children's courage, ingenuity, patriotism, and pacifism, and wholeheartedly agree with the child who stated, “What was done to us was wrong.”
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- 2019
47. The Empire Has An Answer : The Empire Air Training Scheme As Reported in the Australian Press 1939-1945
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Tony James Brady and Tony James Brady
- Abstract
‘If we do not win the battle of training, we shall win no other battle in the air.'In 1943 the Royal Air Force recognised that training a vast amount of aircrew for a high attrition war was essential to an Allied victory, and that the key to winning the ‘battle of training'was the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). 37,576 Australian aircrew graduated from the EATS. Over 300 were killed whilst training for war and 9874 aircrew were killed or listed as missing while on active duty. Those who fought under this scheme during World War II amounted to just 6.7 per cent of Australian service personnel serving overseas yet the aircrew losses amounted to almost 25 per cent of all the Australian fatalities during the war. This made serving in EATS among the most hazardous duties of the war. The Empire has an Answer was researched using more than 35 000 articles, from 150 metropolitan, regional, and district newspapers, and what materialised was a story of one of, if not, the greatest training programs the world has seen. Follow the journey from the conception and implementation of the scheme, through recruitment and basic training, flight training, and then into combat. The individual accounts woven into the narrative provide a first-hand experience of the triumphs and trials of typical airmen and airwomen who performed extraordinary feats in a time of great need. The significant achievements and success of the Empire Air Training Scheme has for the most part been overlooked in our history, until now.
- Published
- 2019
48. First Wave : The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second World War
- Author
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Alex Kershaw and Alex Kershaw
- Subjects
- Commando troops--Biography, Soldiers--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy, World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations
- Abstract
'History's greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can'—Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call'An absolute triumph'—James M. Scott, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and national bestselling author of Target Tokyo and Rampage'The unforgettable human drama of history's most consequential invasion'—John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day—The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Beginning in the pre-dawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day's most critical missions. Their actions would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. The ten make a charismatic, unforgettable cast. They include the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the only British soldier that day to earn a Victoria's Cross; the Canadian brothers who led their decimated troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; the colonel who faced the powerful 150mm guns of the Merville Battery; as well as a French commando who helped destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach. The book will give authentic voice to the invaders'enemies, the German enlisted men and officers tasked with destroying the Allies as they hit the beaches. The result is an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven drama, an epic of close combat and extraordinary heroism. It is the capstone Alex Kershaw's remarkable career, built on his close friendships with D-Day survivors and his intimate understanding of the Normandy battlefield. For the seventy-fifth anniversary, here is a fresh take on the Second World War's longest day.Praise for Alex Kershaw: ‘From the opening pages, when Kershaw...drops us into the invasion of Paris, we know that we are in good hands. This is classic narrative nonfiction, constructed and written like a thriller.'Chicago Tribune ‘Exceptional.... balances evocative prose with attention to detail and is a worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers.'Wall Street Journal ‘Kershaw's writing is seamless. He incorporates information from a vast array of sources, but it works--you get a sense of the different voices coming into the story....A gripping read.'Minneapolis Star Tribune
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- 2019
49. Language Politics and Policies : Perspectives From Canada and the United States
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Thomas Ricento and Thomas Ricento
- Subjects
- Language policy--Canada, Language policy--United States
- Abstract
Tensions and conflicts related to linguistic identity and security are inevitable - even necessary - in liberal democracies. However, if conflicts related to language and identity negatively impact democratic participation, and lead to social fragmentation, civic withdrawal, and lack of trust in societal institutions, then the political system itself may become suspect and unstable. Written by experts from the fields of sociolinguistics, bilingual studies, political science/philosophy, and education, this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the current political, cultural and social factors impacting language policy in the United States and Canada. The chapters cover many aspects of social life in North America, such as immigration, bilingual education, heritage languages, and linguistic identity, and explore the challenges and set-backs, along with the many positive steps taken in recent years to advance the values of inclusion amidst diversity in a variety of contexts and domains in the United States and Canada.
- Published
- 2019
50. The Killing Season : A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
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Geoffrey B. Robinson and Geoffrey B. Robinson
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- Political violence--Indonesia, Political atrocities--Indonesia, Political prisoners--Indonesia
- Abstract
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence?Challenging conventional narratives of the mass violence of 1965–66 as arising spontaneously from religious and social conflicts, Robinson argues convincingly that it was instead the product of a deliberate campaign, led by the Indonesian Army. He also details the critical role played by the United States, Britain, and other major powers in facilitating mass murder and incarceration. Robinson concludes by probing the disturbing long-term consequences of the violence for millions of survivors and Indonesian society as a whole.Based on a rich body of primary and secondary sources, The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history. It also makes a powerful contribution to wider debates about the dynamics and legacies of mass killing, incarceration, and genocide.
- Published
- 2018
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