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Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri. Starting with the evolution of overland passenger transportation, Moody moves on to paint a lively and informative picture of western stagecoaching, from its early short runs through its rise with the gold rush, its zenith of 1858–68, and beyond. Its story is one of grand rivalries, political chicanery, and gaudy publicity stunts, traders, fortune hunters, outlaws, courageous drivers, and indefatigable detectives.

Overview of the diverse and complex lives of First Nations people with subjects including veterans, youth, urbanization, child welfare, appropriate questions to ask a First Nations person, feminism, the medicine wheel, Two-spirit (LGBTQ), residential schools, the land bridge theory, and language preservation.

Though it was discovered almost 500 years ago, few people have visited Sable Island. Despite modern naviational tools, excessive fog and stormy weather still make travelling to Sable a challenge. Add government restrictions limiting visitors to the remote island and prohibitive travel costs, and Sable is virtually inacessible to most.

Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens is the story of the people and the food they prepared. Saskatoons to sauerkraut. Bannock to baked beans. Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens is a tantalizing blend of pioneer cuisine and rich culinary heritage dating back to the fur trade and beyond. If you want to know what life was really like in early Saskatchewan, come to the table with us.

Humanity has spent far too long hobbling on the crutch of religion, and it's long past time for us to cast that crutch aside and run free. Religion has bridled too many minds and bound too many hands. How much longer will humanity remain crippled by it? How much longer will we continue to point fingers at others, harm each other, and limit ourselves in the name of a god?

« La créolisation est-elle le “nom propre” de notre temps, le propre de notre modernité ? », s’interroge le philosophe Alain Menil. Comment ce concept, tiré de l’expérience du peuple antillais, livrerait-il tout à la fois une compréhension de l’entreprise coloniale et une vision prophétique de notre monde contemporain ? C’est le propos de cet essai consacré à Edouard Glissant. Une origine franco-antillaise, un père1 engagé dans cause anticoloniale aux Antilles et une créolité revendiquée conduisent l’auteur à apporter ponctuellement un commentaire réflexif au décours de l’ouvrage.

On appelait "nègre marron" l'esclave qui, aux Antilles, s'échappait de laplantation. La figure de cet esclave fugitif n e cesse d'attirer lesécrivains. Des premiers auteurs blancs du XIXe siècle aux romans afro-antillaiscontemporains, le marronage hante la littérature de Martinique et de Guadeloupe.Sa célébration culmine avec le quatrieme siecle d'Edouard Glissant, pourredescendre dans les dernières decennies.

This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art—from elite to popular.

For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history. In many minds the impression has taken root that those materials are uninteresting. Broadview's two-volume anthology of documents in Canadian history, A Few Acres of Snow and A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt, demonstrates the contrary: that these raw materials provide extraordinarily engaging and informative insights into the richness of Canadian history.