788 Ergebnisse für: mcgill
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Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography - Ronald Rompkey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=C-4vinI1D4oC&pg=PA0#v=onepage
When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the…
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Canada's Vegetation: A World Perspective - Geoffrey A.J. Scott - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QpHCHdrgSVoC&pg=PA150#v=onepage
Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands. An overview of each…
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Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular ... - David MacFadyen - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=YRDBLN0XYLEC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=The+Mystery+of+Vadim+Kozin&source=bl&ots=l6THXP7iFn&sig=cYHX1ru
The author traces the careers of early singers such as Izabella Iur'eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fled the dangers of a Soviet society that had little patience for café-culture. MacFadyen follows their trail…
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Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective - Yannick Lemel, Heinz-Herbert Noll - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=j-ffhE1O-7sC&pg=PA63
Changing Structures of Inequality examines these questions in a new comparative perspective, covering five national societies - Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. The authors offer a deed analysis of country-specific research traditions…
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De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men - Craig Hanyan, Mary L. Hanyan - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Sb1g8tno7OgC&pg=PA259&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
The authors not only provide an in-depth analysis of the interplay of interests and ideology behind the People's movement but also establish relationships between the emergent political culture that bolstered that movement and the Whig and Democratic…
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Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic - Richard Diubaldo - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=hWNFtkZSkNEC&pg=PA25#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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Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=82jaiJ48vZQC&pg=PA207#v=onepage
The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of "nationalisms" was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious…
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Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century - Clarence Karr - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=jzCJe7g6oGcC&pg=PA173&dq=Anne+auf+Green+Gables+1919&lr=#v=onepage&q=
Authors and Audiences reveals the cultural milieu that gave rise to the golden age of hardcover fiction. Karr describes the relationships between authors, literary agents, and publishers in Toronto, London, New York, and other centres; examines the…
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Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De Gaulle’s Free ... - Geoffrey Adams - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5QeF34Z3ae0C&pg=PA62&dq=Gaston+Palewski&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwATgKahUKEwjIgoOQrJXIAhWGQBQKHdR
Adams examines the contributions of such major Français libres as René Cassin, Pierre Mendès France, and Jacques Soustelle and explores de Gaulle's troubled relations with Churchill and Roosevelt. The opportunity for Gaullists to offer full membership to…
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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…