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  • Fixing Niagara Falls

    Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall

    by Daniel Macfarlane ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane details how engineers, bureaucrats, and politicians ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Moving Natures

    Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History

    by Jay Young, Thomas Peace, Jim Clifford, Judy Burns, Ken Cruikshank, Andrew Watson, Merle Massie, Daniel Macfarlane0, Tor H. Oiamo1, Don Lafreniere2, Joy Parr3, J. I. Little4, Jessica Dunkin5, Elizabeth L. Jewett6, Elsa Lam7, Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert8 ...
    Series Book 5 - Canadian History and Environment
    Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Lives of Lake Ontario

    An Environmental History

    by Daniel Macfarlane ...
    Series Book 17 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowded its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities.In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Natural Allies

    Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations

    by Daniel Macfarlane ...
    Series Book 14 - McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance
    No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Environmental and energy diplomacy have profoundly shaped both countries’ economies, politics, and landscapes for over 150 years.Natural Allies looks at the history of US-Canada relations through an environmental lens ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    by Maria Da Silva, Andrew Hind ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    The 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada was a defining moment in Canadian history. It led to political and economic reforms, pushed forward the process of nationhood, and sparked a sense of patriotism. It was also a time of turbulence, uncertainty, and sacrifice. Rebels Against Tories in Upper Canada 1837 focuses on ordinary men and women who found themselves in the middle of an armed revolt against ... Read more

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  • The Spanish on the Northwest Coast

    For Glory, God and Gain

    by Rosemary Neering ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing whether they would return. Their orders from Spain might well arrive long after they were needed, six months or longer into the journey. For more than two centuries, ... Read more

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  • Little Book of Camper Van

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    Little Book of Camper Van, a 128-page hardback book that looks back at the development of one of the most quirky and unique vehicles to have been manufactured, has sold more than 50,000 copies since its launch in 2009. Anyone who has ever driven a Volkswagen Camper will appreciate the appeal of this unique vehicle with its styling and versatility. It has given birth to a raft of products and ... Read more

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  • Mercedes-Benz 600 W100 with chassis number/data card explanation

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    by Bernd S. Koehling ...
    Series Book 5 - The 1960s Mercedes
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  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

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  • North to Bondage

    Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

    by Harvey Amani Whitfield ...
    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of ... Read more

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  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

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  • 200 Years Yonge

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    Edited by Ralph Magel ...
    The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation’s Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalists – all were to influence the building of Yonge Street. With the building of a route came tolls, inns, ... Read more

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