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A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2008-04-18
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You think you’ve heard everything about Newfoundland and Labrador, but…
Have you had a meal of padre?
Have you ever seen a shalandi?
Have you heard of basket soup?
Would you find the term dry dough offensive?
You’ve tried figgy duff, but have you eaten cod...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838.The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2008-02-05
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Diamond Jenness was one of the most outstanding Canadian anthropologists of the early twentieth century. His books, The Indians of Canada and People of the Twilight, are classics. Now, details about the private life of this dedicated scholar are revealed in his own...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2008-01-01
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My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson, the first Chair of Icelandic at the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2007-05-01
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In the nineteenth century, the Newfoundland government, under constant pressure from fish merchants, began installing lighthouses in some of the more treacherous places around the island.
In the 1950s, Cabot Island boasted a large lighthouse, with a steady, brilliant...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2007-02-14
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The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2007-01-15
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Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2007-01-15
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This volume presents the 1845 field journal of pioneering geologist Sir William Edmond Logan, written on an expedition up the Ottawa River. The journal is sprinkled with fascinating stories of daily life during the expedition, supplemented with Logan’s sketches. An...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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Marius Barbeau (1883-1969) played a vital role in shaping Canadian culture in the twentieth century. Rooted in the premise that his cultural work – in anthropology, fine arts, music, film, folklore studies, fiction, historiography – cannot be read uni-dimensionally, the...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on post-related topics. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, these new essays address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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The waters off the east coast of Canada have seen their share of accidents and disasters during the twentieth century. In Newfoundland alone, countless lives have been swallowed up by the angry seas of the North Atlantic or have fallen victim to the devastating effects...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2006-06-28
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Making learning fun and interactive builds excitement for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of land and water forms, map components, latitude and longitude, climate, vegetation, plate tectonics, natural disasters,...
Editeur :
Shell Education
Parution :
2006-05-16
Collection :
Hands On History
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Based on a unique historical source, this book examines the social origins, career expectations, and first jobs of 28,000 students in the “elitist” French secondary schools of the 1860s. Using sophisticated statistical analysis as well as conventional historical...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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Previous accounts of the British Foreign Office have left the impression that the diplomatic service was an insignificant appendage of the Foreign Office. Jones's study redresses the balance, demonstrating that the diplomatic service was an equal if not senior partner...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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Iuri Samarin and Baroness Rahden were intelligent and cultured people who moved easily in nineteenth-century Russian and European society and whose comments on leading personalities, religious, political, and social questions still have relevance for today. The...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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This volume describes the effect of religion on the identity of the native Maoris and Pakehas (white settlers in New Zealand. The description is woven around the idea that the fixed (identity) is constantly "unglued" by the fickle (change). The Maori charismatic...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
Collection :
Religion and Identity
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The Social Sciences in Canada is about the background and history of the Social Science Federation of Canada in honour of its fifty years of national activity. There can be little doubt that during the last fifty years the federation, and its predecessors, have had a...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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This book is the first collection of scholarly essays to treat the topic of antisemitism in Canada, a complete history of which has yet to be written. Eleven leading thinkers in the field examine antisemitism in Canada, from the colonial era to the present day, in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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