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The Origins of Maya States by Traxler Loa P.;
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Traxler, Loa P.;

8.14. Aerial view of the series of elongated, parallel, elevated features in the Bajo Carrizal, found to the southwest of El Mirador. The features appear to have been an ancient ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2023 )
Puerto Rico by Jorge Duany
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Jorge Duany

How did Operation Bootstrap transform the Island’s economy? In the two decades after the end of World War II, Puerto Rico’s rates of economic growth were among the highest in ...
( Category: Puerto Rico June 13,2023 )
The Silver Women by Joan Flores-Villalobos
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Flores-Villalobos

On a ship bound for Panama, American journalist Albert Edwards heard a chorus of West Indian voices singing the first song. He noted that the men on board sang it ...
( Category: Panama June 13,2023 )
The Exceptions by Kate Zernike
epub |eng | 2023-02-27 | Author:Kate Zernike

Chapter 14 “Fodder” Boris Magasanik, the former chairman of Biology, called Mary-Lou from Washington in April 1982 to share big news: she’d just been elected to the National Academy of ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2023 )
Actual Malice by Samantha Barbas;
epub |eng | | Author:Samantha Barbas;

11 Make No Law Not long after the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision in the Sullivan case, the libel cases intersected, rather fortuitously, with First Amendment theory. In 1962, U.S. Supreme ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2023 )
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
epub |eng | 2018-01-20 | Author:21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

COMMUNITY HEALING AND SELF-GOVERNMENT Most Indigenous Peoples recognize that self-government cannot serve as a panacea or silver bullet for the deep-rooted social, health, and economic problems that plague most Indigenous ...
( Category: First Nations June 13,2023 )
Cold War Radio by Mark G. Pomar
epub |eng | | Author:Mark G. Pomar [Pomar, Mark G.]

Solzhenitsyn was so outraged by Pipes’s interpretation of Russian history that he even turned down an invitation to meet with President Reagan, a politician he deeply admired, because Pipes, at ...
( Category: United States June 13,2023 )
Warriors and Warships by Robert D. Banks
epub |eng | | Author:Robert D. Banks

DescriptionThis 1815 map of Kingston and the surrounding area includes depths and sightlines. The Royal Navy Hospital on Point Frederick and the earlier small hospital in Kingston are shown and ...
( Category: Pre-Confederation June 13,2023 )
We Were Not the Savages, First Nations History by Daniel N.  Paul
epub |eng | 2022-09-16 | Author:Daniel N.  Paul

Island of Cape Breton, 520 Western District, including Annapolis, Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queens, and Lunenburg Counties, 415 Pictou County, 100 Kings County, 35 County of Sydney (Afton) 90 Total 1425 ...
( Category: First Nations June 13,2023 )
Boundaries of Belonging by April Lee Hatfield;
epub |eng | 2022-11-03 | Author:April Lee Hatfield;

Freedom draws such, and where there’s many found, It is most certain, Riches will abound. One hundred such, ten thousand do imploy, Who find their Wealth increase, but know not ...
( Category: Jamaica June 13,2023 )
Judaism, Race, and Ethics by Jonathan K. Crane
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan K. Crane

Conclusion This chapter has attempted to elucidate a “Yiddish gaze” on black bodies that is implicated within a practice of white gazing that involuntarily assigns meanings to black bodies as ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2023 )
Montreal at War, 19141918 by Terry Copp;Alexander Maavara;
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Copp;Alexander Maavara;

How the nations and politicians happened to enter such an abyss is impossible to imagine. It is not the dying that is difficult for the men – it is the ...
( Category: 20th Century June 13,2023 )
The Naval Government of Newfoundland in the French Wars: 1793–1815 by John Morrow
pdf |en | | Author: John Morrow

( Category: Americas June 12,2023 )
The Senator and the Socialite by Lawrence Otis Graham
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Otis Graham

CHAPTER FOURTEEN 1902 Roscoe Builds an Alliance with Booker T. Washington I hoped that you’d sell the old plantation—beautiful and full of promise though it be…Well, of the plantation, I ...
( Category: Americas June 12,2023 )
Boston in the Great War by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-04-29 | Author:Unknown

The 18-year-old Private E.W. Dallywater of C Company. Dear Mr. Dallywater, I am so sorry to hear through the Rev. A.S. Bishop, our chaplain with the North Midland Division, of ...
( Category: Americas June 12,2023 )

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