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A Voyage to the North West Side of America

The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89

By: Robert Galois

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A Voyage to the North West Side of America

The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89

By: Robert Galois

Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.

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UBC Press

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0774840013

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9780774840019

The Warm South

By: Robert Holland

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The Warm South

By: Robert Holland

An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons--including many painters and poets--who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.

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349

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Yale University Press

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0300235925

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9780300235920

Voices from Hudson Bay

Cree Stories from York Factory

By: Flora Beardy,Robert Coutts

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Voices from Hudson Bay

Cree Stories from York Factory

By: Flora Beardy,Robert Coutts

The era the elders describe, from the end of World War I to the closing of York Factory in 1957, saw dramatic changes - both positive and negative - to aboriginal life in the North. The extension of Treaty 5 in 1910 to include members of the York Factory band, the arrival of police and government agents, and the shifting economy of the fur trade are all discussed. Despite these upheavals, however, the elders' accounts demonstrate the continuity of northern life in the twentieth century, from the persistence of traditional ways to the ongoing role of community and kinship ties. Perceptions of aboriginal life have been shaped largely by non-Native accounts that offer limited views of Swampy Cree history and record little beyond the social and economic interaction that was part of life in the fur trade. The stories in this collection provide Cree perspectives on northern life and history, and represent the legacy of a younger generation of aboriginal people.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773566236

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9780773566231

Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods

By: Robert Glyndwr Williams

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Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods

By: Robert Glyndwr Williams

Follow Indy as he uses his wits, whip, and fists to keep a devastating discovery out of the hands of the evil Nazi scientist Dr. Friedrich Von Hassell.

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ABDO

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1599616602

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9781599616605

Northern Spirits

John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought

By: Robert C. Sibley

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Northern Spirits

John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought

By: Robert C. Sibley

The recovery of Watson's thought is particularly valuable. Sibley shows that Watson, an internationally respected philosopher in the early twentieth century, discussed idealism and support for imperialism in ways that are particularly relevant in our new age of empire. A consideration of Grant's relationship to Hegel illuminates what led Grant to declare that Canada was "impossible" in the age of technology. Sibley's comparison of Grant and Trudeau is both unexpected and intriguing. So, too, is his analysis of the "illiberal strands" in Taylor's "politics of recognition.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077357803X

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9780773578036

Travel Writing from Black Australia

Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality

By: Robert Clarke

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Travel Writing from Black Australia

Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality

By: Robert Clarke

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. On the one hand, Aboriginality in the form of artworks, literature, performances, landscapes, sport, and famous individuals is celebrated for the way it blends exoticism, mysticism, multiculturalism, nationalism, and reconciliation. On the other hand, in the media, cinema, and travel writing, Aboriginality in the form of the lived experiences of Aboriginal people has been exploited in the service of moral panic, patronized in the name of white benevolence, or simply ignored. For many travel writers, this irony - the clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality - is one of the great challenges to travelling in Australia. Travel Writing from Black Australia examines the ambivalence of contemporary travelers’ engagements with Aboriginality. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyses how travel to Black Australia has become, for many travelers, a means of discovering ‘new’—and potentially transformative—styles of interracial engagement.

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Routledge

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1317914740

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9781317914747

Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

By: Kris E Lane,Kris Lane,Robert M. Levine

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Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

By: Kris E Lane,Kris Lane,Robert M. Levine

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire building. This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic world, and the global empires of the early modern era.

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Routledge

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1317524462

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9781317524465

Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina

Traditional narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

By: Robert A. Brightman

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Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina

Traditional narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

By: Robert A. Brightman

Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772822779

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9781772822779

Savages, Romans, and Despots

Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder

By: Robert Launay

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Savages, Romans, and Despots

Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder

By: Robert Launay

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In Savages, Romans, and Despots, Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour of early modern and modern history in an attempt to untangle how various depictions of “foreign” cultures and civilizations saturated debates about religion, morality, politics, and art. Beginning with Mandeville and Montaigne, and working through Montesquieu, Diderot, Gibbon, Herder, and others, Launay traces how Europeans both admired and disdained unfamiliar societies in their attempts to work through the inner conflicts of their own social worlds. Some of these writers drew caricatures of “savages,” “Oriental despots,” and “ancient” Greeks and Romans. Others earnestly attempted to understand them. But, throughout this history, comparative thinking opened a space for critical reflection. At its worst, such space could give rise to a sense of European superiority. At its best, however, it could prompt awareness of the value of other ways of being in the world. Launay’s masterful survey of some of the Western tradition’s finest minds offers a keen exploration of the genesis of the notion of “civilization,” as well as an engaging portrait of the promises and perils of cross-cultural comparison.

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University of Chicago Press

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022657539X

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9780226575391

The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730

By: Robert Markley

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The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730

By: Robert Markley

A 2006 investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.

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Cambridge University Press

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052181944X

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9780521819442

The Sea Voyage Narrative

By: Robert Foulke

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The Sea Voyage Narrative

By: Robert Foulke

From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.

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Routledge

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1135366438

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Travelers to an Antique Land

The History and Literature of Travel to Greece

By: Robert Eisner

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Travelers to an Antique Land

The History and Literature of Travel to Greece

By: Robert Eisner

Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel

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University of Michigan Press

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0472082205

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9780472082209

The American West

A New Interpretive History

By: Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher

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The American West

A New Interpretive History

By: Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher

Two eminent historians, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, present the American West as both frontier and region, real and imagined, old and new, and they show how men and women of all ethnic groups were affected when different cultures met and clashed. Their concise and engaging survey of frontier history traces the story from the first Columbian contacts between Indians and Europeans to the multicultural encounters of the modern Southwest. The book attunes us to the voices of the frontier's many diverse peoples: Indians, struggling to defend their homelands and searching for a way to live with colonialism; the men and women who became immigrants and colonists from all over the world; African Americans, both slave and free; and borderland migrants from Mexico, Canada, and Asian lands. Profusely illustrated with contemporary drawings, posters, and photographs and written in lively and accessible prose, the book not only presents a panoramic view of historical events and characters but also provides fascinating details about such topics as western landscapes, environmental movements, literature, visual arts, and film. Following in the tradition of Hine's earlier acclaimed work, The American West: An Interpretive History, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars, students, and general readers.

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634

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Yale University Press

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0300078358

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9780300078350

Acaoohkiwina and Acimowina

Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

By: Robert Alain Brightman,Canadian Museum of Civilization,Canadian Ethnology Service

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Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

By: Robert Alain Brightman,Canadian Museum of Civilization,Canadian Ethnology Service

Presents narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba accompanied by interpretive and comparative commentary. Collection contains stories of the trickster-transformer Wisahkicahk, animal-human characters, early encounters with Catholicism, etc.

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Hull, Que. : Canadian Museum of Civilization

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0660107864

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9780660107868

The Siege of Mosul and Ottoman-Persian Relations

By: Robert W. Olson

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The Siege of Mosul and Ottoman-Persian Relations

By: Robert W. Olson

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134896166

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9781134896165

The Material Atlantic

Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800

By: Robert S. DuPlessis

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The Material Atlantic

Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800

By: Robert S. DuPlessis

A fascinating account of the trade patterns and consumption practices that arose following European colonisation of the Atlantic world. Focusing on textiles and clothing, Robert DuPlessis reveals how globally sourced goods shaped the material existence of virtually every group in the Atlantic basin during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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387

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Cambridge University Press

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1107105919

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9781107105911

People of the Dalles

The Indians of Wascopam Mission : a Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries

By: Robert Thomas Boyd

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People of the Dalles

The Indians of Wascopam Mission : a Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries

By: Robert Thomas Boyd

People of The Dalles is the story of the Chinookan (Wasco-Wishram) and Sahaptin peoples of The Dalles area of the Columbia River, who encountered the Lewis & Clark expedition in 1805–6. The early history and culture of these communities is reconstructed from the accounts of explorers, travelers, and the early writings of the Methodist missionaries at Wascopam, in particular the papers of Reverend Henry Perkins. Boyd covers early nineteenth century cultural geography, subsistence, economy, social structure, life-cycle rituals, and religion. People of The Dalles also details the changes that occurred to these people's traditional life-ways, including their relationship with Methodism following the devastating epidemics of the early 1830s. Today, descendants of the Chinookan and Sahaptin peoples are enrolled in the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the Yakama Nation.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803212364

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9780803212367

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