Historical geography

El libro Historia urbana de la ciudad de La Paz, Baja California Sur, México se diseñó como un trabajo multidisciplinar de divulgación a partir de un proyecto de investigación permanente que se lleva a cabo en el Centro de Documentación de Historia Urbana (CEDOHU-UABCS) adscrito al Departamento Académico de Economía de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur: "Historia urbana: economía, ciudad y patrimonio cultural".

El libro presenta una valiosa labor de investigación, documentación y análisis de cuatro localidades del municipio de La Paz (Baja California Sur, México): La Paz, Todos Santos, El Triunfo y San Antonio; llevaba a cabo por miembros del Colectivo de Historia Urbana del Centro de Documentación de Historia Económica y Política de Baja California Sur.

Los cronistas se dedican a hacer crónica urbana de la ciudad, contado su historia, de sus calles y callejones, de sus edificios, de la vida cotidiana de los pobladores, de los vocablos locales, de los personajes ilustres de la ciudad, entre otros temas; pero, en esta ocasión, un grupo de cronistas paceños, acostumbrados a escribir sobre las historias de otros, contarán su historia personal con la ciudad.

During the 1970s a wave of counter-culture people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia.

When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people.

Winner, 2022 RUSA Outstanding Reference SourceThis encyclopedia provides readers with a comprehensive look at the Galapagos Islands, from the wildlife and scientists that made them famous to the challenges and issues the islands face today.

This accessible chapter book, ideal for students and general readers alike, examines the political, social, and cultural history of Chile.

One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.

This is the first of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms.

This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms.

An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century.

The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective.

This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms.

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia.

Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC.

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects.

In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions.

In Australia, a tribe of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people.

In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality the flow of moment-to-moment existence and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study.

Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict.

Indigeneity has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences.

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters.

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception.

"e;It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,"e; Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars.

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

If you can identify all these landmarks, then half of the job is already done.

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments.

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "e;Lammy"e; Award in LGBTQ StudiesThe first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "e;two-spirit"e; identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources.

The Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America.

The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions.

Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there's much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.

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Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present.

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media?

One little two, little three American Indians!

"e;I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt.

This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans.

There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas.

A picture book about frogs can work wonders for a child's imagination.

In telling the story of the extraordinary contributions of the U.

*;Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her.

"e;Warrior Women"e; makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people.

This volume focuses on the past, current and future success of Maori and Pasifika peoples in tertiary education within Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People's Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology.

Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition.