Avant North America
Between 1870 and 2010 over half a million Slovaks migrated to the USA and Canada. As other ethnic groups from East Central Europe they headed principally to the industrial triangle of the USA and to central Canada's cities in search of work. Finding themselves in strange surroundings they quickly es...
The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both extensive and effective. Yet all too frequently its impact has been ignored by historians who instead focus on the influence of explorers fur traders settlers and railway builders. In this thoro...
Created in response to requests from longtime users this addition to the acclaimed reference to North American lichens compiles updated and expanded keys for the identification of these fascinating organisms. An ideal laboratory resource it covers over 2000 species of lichens indigenous to the conti...
The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America they jumped into rivers or out of windows or even ran into...
Francois Andre Michaux (1770--1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world's first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 the English botanist and one of the greatest plant explorers of North America Thomas Nuttall (178...
The largest single immigration of Germans to the United States and the most unusual occurred in Texas around the middle of the nineteenth century. The organization formed to direct this German colonization of Texas became popularly known as the Adelsverein (The Society of Noblemen). The key figure i...
Travel writing has a long history the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel. Although most travel publications of the eighteenth century were written by men those by women perhaps most famously Lady Mary Wortley Montagu were also widely read. The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant L...
This new field guide offers a complete identification reference to all of the sandpipers plovers stints and other waders found in Europe Asia and North America. The superb plates show birds at rest and in flight in every plumage variant likely to be encountered in the region. Species have been group...
Ducks Geese and Swans of North America has been hailed as a classic since the first edition was published in 1942. A must-have for professional biologists birders waterfowl hunters decoy collectors and wildlife managers this fully revised and updated edition provides definitive information on the co...
Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of the first books to explore the contemporary musical landscape of indigenous North Americans in the north and east....
This issue provides a glimpse into how pain can be assessed and managed by several medical disciplines and approaches. It covers classical and conventional techniques as well as innovative techniques....
This issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice focuses on Soft Tissue Surgery. Articles include: Update on Surgical Principles and Equipment Updates on Principles of Perioperative Care Updates on Principles of Wound management Enucleation techniques in exotic pets Reptile ...
Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities. Developed from th...
This issue provides a glimpse into how pain can be assessed and managed by several medical disciplines and approaches. It covers classical and conventional techniques as well as innovative techniques....
This superb fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity kinships locations populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the North American continent both living and extinct from the Canadian Arctic to th...
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North America maintains the largest collection of archival materials relating to the Chinese Republican era 19111949 outside of China. Most of the archival materials are also unique and the collections contain special materials supplementing historical records in China and Taiwan. In many cases Nort...
Wildfowl of Europe Asia and North America is a comprehensive reference summarisingcurrent knowledge on the identification of the different species and subspeciesof ducks geese and swans in Europe Asia and North America - in essence theHolarctic zoogeographical region. The detailed species accounts c...
This issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America focuses on CT Angiography. Articles will include CT Angiography A Review and Technical Update CT Angiography of Thoracic Aorta CT Angiography of Abdominal Aorta CT Angiography of the Liver Spleen and Pancreas CT Angiography of the Bowel and Mesenter...
This volume contains the fourteen papers that were given at the Third FrancoGerman Colloquium at the University of ErlangenNuremberg. Leading French and German scholars in American Studies address issues of ethic cultures in the U.S. and Canada during the Twenties. The volume presents contributions ...
The book discusses the relationship of religion to political entities (countries) in Europe and America in the 17th and 18th centuries. It aims to fill a gap in the literature by understanding the varieties of religious expression in Europe at the time and how those trends influenced the rise of rel...
This volume contains the fourteen papers that were given at the Third Franco-German Colloquium at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Leading French and German scholars in American Studies address issues of ethic cultures in the U.S. and Canada during the Twenties. The volume presents contribution...
This issue of Medical Clinics of North America guest edited by Drs. Douglas Paauw and Kim OConnor is devoted to Pharmacologic Therapy. Articles in this issue include Pharmacologic Therapies for Autoimmune and Rheumatologic Conditions Pharmacologic Therapies for Opthalmologic Conditions Pharmacologic...
The railways of the USA have a great following both in the United States where there are large numbers of rail fans and increasingly in Britain/Europe where there are enthusiasts who visit and model North American railroads. The number and variety of these railway operations is both colourful and i...
This issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America focuses on CT Angiography. Articles will include: CT Angiography - A Review and Technical Update; CT Angiography of Thoracic Aorta; CT Angiography of Abdominal Aorta; CT Angiography of the Liver Spleen and Pancreas; CT Angiography of the Bowel and Me...
Since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tensions concerning immigration trends and policies which continued to escalate at the turn of the millennium resulted in revised national security policies in Mexico Canada and the United States. These tensions have catalyze...
From dazzling cities to eccentric small towns from vast mountains to plains as far as the eye can see Canada and the United States offer an awe-inspiring abundance of travel adventures. In this discerning hotel guide Angelika Taschen guides you on your way scouring the North American continent for t...
Lichens are a unique form of plant life the product of a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus. The beauty and importance of lichens have long been overlooked despite their abundance and diversity in most parts of North America and elsewhere in the world. This stunning book - the first ...
This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns-including the redistribution of economic activities the cont...
Long before it was invaded by Europeans North America had thousands of years of human history. The land had long been settled by Native Americans who had developed many varied complex and long-lasting cultures across the continent. This book looks at the pre-European Native American story in its own...