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Black Loyalists

Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

By: Ruth Holmes Whithead

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Black Loyalists

Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

By: Ruth Holmes Whithead

“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents

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1771080175

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9781771080170

Stories from the Six Worlds

Micmac Legends

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead

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Stories from the Six Worlds

Micmac Legends

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Ruth Holmes Whitehead is a renowned Mi'kmaq specialist and staff ethnologist and assistant curator in history at the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax. Her publications include Six Micmac Stories, The Mi'kmaq, How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago, Micmac Quillwork, and Elitekey.

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Halifax, NS : Nimbus Pub.

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1551095785

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Stories from the Six Worlds

Mi'kmaw Legends

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead

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Stories from the Six Worlds

Mi'kmaw Legends

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead

In Stories from the Six Worlds, it is their stories, passed down by word of mouth, that best preserve and present Mi'kmaw culture. For in their tales, the People themselves speak about their world and give us glimpses of how their universe manifests, in all its fascinating otherness. Mi'kmaw stories have many levels: entertainment, instruction, warnings. They might subtly encode maps of the land's important resources, or of the wheeling skies at night. Telling stories, Elders wove humour and stark tragedy, terror and beauty, to teach their listeners how to survive. More importantly, they underlined, over and over again, how their listeners, as humans, must conduct themselves. Their tales resound with the universal themes included in any worldview--Order and Chaos, Courage and Fear, Change, Revenge and Mercy, Death, Rebirth, and Power--yet are powerfully rooted in Mi'kmaw tradition, Mi'kmaw land. Their voices still speak to us, down the centuries. Drawing on various sources, Ruth Holmes Whitehead retells the tales in a voice close to that of the original storytellers. This new edition includes an updated design and the original collection of twenty-nine stories. In Stories from the Six Worlds, Mi'kmaw legends are offered to all people whose search for meaning draws them again to the ancient cultures.

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1551099829

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Black Loyalists

Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

By: Ruth Holmes Whithead

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Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

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Museum Pieces

Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums

By: Ruth B. Phillips

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Museum Pieces

Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums

By: Ruth B. Phillips

Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773587462

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9780773587465

Trading Identities

The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

By: Ruth Bliss Phillips

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Trading Identities

The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

By: Ruth Bliss Phillips

Indians in northeastern North America produced a variety of art objects for sale to travelers and tourists during the 18th and 19th centuries. This art is of high quality and great aesthetic interest, but has been largely ignored by scholars. This study combines fieldwork, art historical analysis,

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University of Washington Press

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0295976489

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9780295976488

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802058566

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9780802058560

The Game of Justice

A Theory of Individual Self-Government

By: Ruth Lane

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The Game of Justice

A Theory of Individual Self-Government

By: Ruth Lane

The Game of Justice argues that justice is politics, that politics is something close to ordinary people and not located in an abstract and distant institution known as the State, and that the concept of the game provides a new way to appreciate the possibilities of creating justice. Justice, as a game, is played in a challenging environment that makes serious demands on the participants, in terms of self-knowledge and individual self-government, and also in terms of understanding social behavior. What the term game provides is a radical opening of all established institutions: the status quo is neither absolute nor inevitable, but is the result of past political controversy, a result created by the winners to express their victory. At the same time, the game of justice, like all games, is played over and over again, with winners and losers changing places over time. This serves as encouragement to past losers and provides a cautionary reminder to past winners.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480232

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9780791480236

The Micmac

How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead,Harold Franklin McGee

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The Micmac

How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead,Harold Franklin McGee

For use in schools.

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Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Pub.

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0920852211

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9780920852217

The Collector's Book of Sheet Music Covers

By: Robyn Holmes,Ruth Lee Martin

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The Collector's Book of Sheet Music Covers

By: Robyn Holmes,Ruth Lee Martin

During the past 150 years, sheet music has played an important role in the homes of many Australians, as a source of entertainment and self-expression. This publication reveals old favourites and rare treasures in the National Librarys sheet music collection and explores how Australias favourite songs and music reflect our sense of ourselves as a nation.

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National Library Australia

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064210736X

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9780642107367

Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Ruth Elder,Debra Nizette,Katie Evans

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Ruth Elder,Debra Nizette,Katie Evans

The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client’s experience of mental illness.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729578771

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9780729578776

American Gothic Literature

A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead

By: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

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American Gothic Literature

A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead

By: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left its mark on the genre--the English ghostly setting becomes the wilderness haunted by spectral Indians. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans adds urgency to traditional Gothic anxieties about possession. The unchanging role of woman in early Gothic narratives parallels the status of American women, even after the Revolution. Twentieth-century Gothic works offer inclusion to previously silent voices, including immigrant writers with their own cultural traditions. The 21st century unleashes the zombie horde--the latest incarnation of the voracious American.

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McFarland

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1476633401

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9781476633404

Barrow-in-Furness in the Great War

By: Ruth Mansergh

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Barrow-in-Furness in the Great War

By: Ruth Mansergh

This book is about how Barrow's output of war materials was vital to the Great War effort, and it is about the Barrovians and men from the surrounding south Lakeland area - from all walks of life - who fought abroad, and the area's women war heroes. It includes background information on the history of the town, such as the Furness Railway, iron ore in the area and shipbuilding, and lists vessels built at Barrow pre- and during the war with information on what happened to them. These vessels include Mikasa and HMS Vanguard. At the outbreak of World War One, Vanguard fought in the battle of Jutland. The Mayfly (or the Won't Fly as Churchill called it), built by Vickers at Barrow along similar lines to the very early Zeppelins, was launched in 1911. She was the first British rigid airship to be built. Today, Astute submarines for the Royal Navy keep Barrow busy and local people turn up when new submarines are launched. This book also acts as a reference guide to local war dead and war heroes, lost heroes, the area's recipients of the Victoria Cross, memorials with details of those commemorated (including those whose names were unwelcome on memorials). Barrow's War Memorial in Barrow Park was unveiled in November, 1921 by Field Marshall Sir William "Wullie" Robertson and records close to 600 names of those who fought and died in the First World War.

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Pen and Sword

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1783831111

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9781783831111

Medical Intuition

How to Combine Inner Resources with Modern Medicine : a Journey of Self-discovery and Healing

By: Ruth Berger

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Medical Intuition

How to Combine Inner Resources with Modern Medicine : a Journey of Self-discovery and Healing

By: Ruth Berger

Even though Ruth Berger has never smoked, she was diagnosed with advanced emphysema, and told that her condition could only deteriorate. A psychic told her what type of new doctor to look for and what he's say. This doctor prescribed a focus on wellness, and after several years of discovering and discarding old habits, she cured herself! Now she shares the insights she gained to help you develop medical intuition for yourself. "Medical Intuition" will help you become a partner with your doctor, get educated about your health condition, keep your power, discover how past lives can affect you, and reduce your fears regarding illness. Exercises to increase your intuitive skills are included so that you can begin a more effective attunement with higher levels of conciousness. When you can hear what your body needs, you can help yourself and others.

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162

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Red Wheel

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0877288518

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9780877288510

Internet and World Wide Web Simplified

By: Ruth Maran,Paul Whitehead

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Internet and World Wide Web Simplified

By: Ruth Maran,Paul Whitehead

The 3-D visual approach to learning the internet and the World Wide WEb.

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246

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Visual

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0764560298

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9780764560293

Genius at Work

Images of Alexander Graham Bell

By: Dorothy Eber

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Genius at Work

Images of Alexander Graham Bell

By: Dorothy Eber

Describes the life and experiments of Alexander Graham Bell at his summer home and laboratory on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia

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Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus

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092105467X

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9780921054672

Song of Rita Joe

Autobiography of a Mi'kmaw Poet

By: Rita Joe

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Song of Rita Joe

Autobiography of a Mi'kmaw Poet

By: Rita Joe

Song of Rita Joe is a book of exceptional courage and insight, the words of a gentle woman who fought for her family, justice, and her own independent voice. She faced intolerance, ignorance, and abuse, searched her inheritance for strength, and wrote poems of clarity and encouragement that continue to inspire not only her people but all people. Finally, she was a humble woman, an honoured Mi'Kmaw elder, poet, and member of the Order of Canada.

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192690804X

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