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Women Who Made the News: Female Journalists in Canada, 1880-1945 - Marjory Lang - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=cAt4MQ-da1AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The first newspaperwomen were employed to attract female subscribers and advertising revenue. Once hired, they found themselves confined to a narrow range of specialties that catered to conventionally defined women's interests - home-making, fashion, and…
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Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic ... - Stuart E. Jenness - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CTCPh_u4rKgC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false
Wilkins was originally seconded to Stefansson's Arctic Expedition for a year as its official photographer but circumstances forced him to stay in the Arctic for three years. He spent much of those extra two years in discussion with Stefansson, becoming his…
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Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia - Kira Van Deusen - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=Exu6lNHoZ-cC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=sunduki+inscription&ots=-JfEbYGdmf&sig=NHEXEwsKxvazhouX5
Endlessly fascinating, often moving, and a must read for anyone interested in the cultures of Siberia. Adele Barker, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
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History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 - Peter Hoffmann - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=WErfpRPnNPoC&pg=PA259
The English version of the book has been extensively revised and expanded since its original publication in German. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
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Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire - Joan Coutu - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ccwzxJyFJ0sC&pg=PA143
Lavishly illustrated, Persuasion and Propaganda is the first study of these works of art within the framework of colonial politics and political culture. While examining the rise of the idea of the public in the modern world, Joan Coutu also explores how…
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Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic - Richard Diubaldo - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=hWNFtkZSkNEC&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Stefansson's contributions to arctic exploration are immense. He discovered some of the world's last major land masses in the Arctic and his hydrographic soundings outlined, for the first time, the continental shelf from Alaska to Prince Patrick Island and…
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Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian ... - Austin Jersild - Google Books
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Orientalism and Empire sheds new light on the little-studied Russian empire in the Caucasus by exploring the tension between national and imperial identities on the Russian frontier. Austin Jersild contributes to the growing literature on Russian…
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A History of Canadian Literature - W.H. New - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=IrIy_LwIQAAC&pg=PA175&dq=%22Mavor+Moore%22+1919
New offers an unconventionally structured overview of Canadian literature, from Native American mythologies to contemporary texts. Publishers Weekly A History of Canadian Literature looks at the work of writers and the social and cultural contexts that…
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Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - M. Perceval-Maxwell - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=dGXz3RFwWzcC&pg=PA197
Perceval-Maxwell gives considerable attention to the structure of the Irish parliament in 1640 and 1641 and the decisions made by that body in both the Commons and the Lords. He argues that initially there was a broad consensus between Protestant and…
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History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 - Peter Hoffmann - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=WErfpRPnNPoC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259
The English version of the book has been extensively revised and expanded since its original publication in German. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.