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An examination of how Canada has moved away from the monarchical government espoused by the fathers of Confederation and has come to embrace the republican government they worked so hard to avoid.

Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina : Cadiz to Panama (Hakluyt Society Series, 3)

This volume contains Malaspina's "diario" or journal in English translation and with commentary. It covers the period from 15 December 1790 to 15 November 1792, when he visited the Pacific coasts of Central and North America, as far north as Alaska, before crossing the ocean to the Philippines. Other texts include the apocryphal voyage of Ferrer Maldonaldo through the Strait of Anian, which led to a major diversion of the Malaspina expedition in 1791.

Este libro es una obra de alto valor histórico para los estudiosos de la etapa colonial de México, por cuanto constituye una reproducción facsimilar de la edición príncipe publicada en 1877 por el Ministerio de Fomento de Madrid. En sus páginas se reúne una selección de testimonios que muestran parte importante de la cultura jurídica mexicana, letrada y formal, en la voz de quienes contribuyeron a levantar y encauzar los destinos de la Nueva España; abarca el periodo comprendido entre 1532 y 1583. Las décadas en las que se discutió la presencia española en tierras americanas, la naturaleza jurídica del indígena y la definición de las principales instituciones de Nueva España, se conocen como el periodo virreinal y se comprenden en este volumen entre los años de 1542 a 1586.

From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct social categories. In this volume, Marcelo Badaro Mattos demonstrates that these two historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Badaro Mattos reveals the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio's working class, from which emerged the many strategies that workers both free and unfree pursued in their struggles against oppression.

Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas. This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll. After 1970 indigenismo may have served the populist aims of president Luis Echeverria, but Mexican anthropologists, indigenistas, and the indigenous themselves increasingly challenged INI theory and practice and rendered them obsolete.

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology palaeoecology climate history and the historical record this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land waters forests and wildlife This volume takes the reader from the climatic highs of the Late Iron Age to the depths of the war torn and plague ravaged fourteenth century Departing from traditional frameworks that divide Scotland s history into periods based on kings reigns or major political events discussion instead follows the major shifts in climate that divide these fourteen centuries into epochs each with its own distinct characteristics Starting amidst the fields and forests shaped across the eight millennia of Scotland s prehistory where we encounter the imprint of past generations of hunters and gatherers farmers and fishermen as well as the legacies of climate impacts and pathogens the book explores the depths of the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the long climb back to the Golden Age of the twelfth and thirteenth century Medieval Climate Anomaly to end with the slide through crop failure famine war and disease of what is reputed to be the worst century in human history

En una obra única en el mercado tanto en diseño como en contenido, José Luis García-Tapia nos contagia de su misma curiosidad y pasión a través de inesperadas anécdotas personales, 300 imágenes y más de mil páginas de conceptos que responden a cualquier pregunta posible acerca de esta cultura. Amarillo Pasión es una brújula literaria escencial para todos aquellos lectores hispanoparlantes que deseen descifrar, vivir o liderar en China; cubriendo conceptos tan básicos como las relaciones sociales y la ética a la hora de hacer negocios, o tan controversiales como la libertad de expresión y las Guerras del Opio.

How outdoor industry marketing promotes an image of the wilderness as an unpeopled havenMarketing the Wilderness analyzes the relationship between the outdoor recreation industry public lands in the United States and Indigenous sovereignty and representation in recreational spaces Combining social media analysis digital ethnography and historical research Joseph Whitson offers nuanced insights into more than a century of the outdoor recreation industry s marketing strategies unraveling its complicity in settler colonialism Complicating the narrative of outdoor recreation as a universal good Whitson introduces the concept of wildernessing to describe the physical legal and rhetorical production of pristine empty lands that undergirds the outdoor recreation industry a process that further disenfranchises Indigenous people from whom these lands were stolen He demonstrates how companies such as Patagonia and REI align with the mining and drilling industries in their need to remove Indigenous peoples and histories from valuable lands And he describes the ways Indigenous and decolonial activists are subverting and resisting corporate marketing strategies to introduce new narratives of place Through the lens of environmental justice activism Marketing the