Trefferliste "Local History" - alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 1978 - 1984

Textiles in Manuscripts

Die Verwendung von Textilien in Büchern und Manuskripten war von der Spätantike bis in die frühe Neuzeit weit verbreitet. Sie dienten als Verstärkung der Bindung oder als Einband, wurden benutzt, um eine …

Local TV

Local TVoffers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. Television is typically perceived as a commercial and/or na…

The Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History

Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent--if perplexing--participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. Thi…

Matthieu Caron

Montreal After Dark

Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisur…

Richard H Tomczak

Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783

Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era.

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. C…

Virginia Wright

A Town Built by Ski Bums

Located 60 country miles from Interstate 95, Carrabassett Valley, Maine doesn't look like a classic rural New England town. Only a handful of buildings pre-date 1950. Settlement is concentrated in two are…

Shaun Scott

Heartbreak City

How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistance To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United …

Paul N Spellman

Spindletop Boom Days

Spindletop. The word conjures images of Texas oil: roustabouts, roughnecks, oil barons, and endless rows of wooden derricks. The discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901 revolutionized the oil and drilling …

Daniel Macfarlane

The Lives of Lake Ontario

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 en…

Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores, Texas Plantation Mistress

Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas. From that vantage point, they viewed the changing fortunes of Texas as the America…

Noëlle Phillips

Brewmasters and Brewery Creek

"A thorough investigation into the history of craft beer" --Kendall Hunter, author of Beer Hiking Canadian RockiesThis rigorously researched deep dive into the history of craft beer in Vancouver…

Frédéric Mercure Jolette

Réinventer Montréal

Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robil…

Laura Madokoro

Sanctuary in Pieces

Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protect…

Cheryl M Hargrove

Authentic America

Explore what makes America distinct through this in-depth guide to 250 places integral to the country's cultural and historical essence.

Micah True

The Jesuit Relations

The Jesuit "Relations" *explores the intricate relationships between the published *Relations and the many other texts written in New France, revealing a rich picture of a historical source that…

Michael R Westcott

With a Unity of Purpose

With a Unity of Purpose examines the transformation of Newfoundland during the First World War from a society underpinned by classical liberalism to one dominated by social liberalism, in which citizens a…

Sherry L Smith

Bohemians West

Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of an early twentieth century radical romance between Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field who sought economic justice, gender equality, and individual f…