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7 produkter
Game in the Garden
A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
Inbunden, 2002
1218 kr
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Frontier and pioneer societies provide numerous unexplored avenues of social history. Game in the Garden identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society. In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand …
Pemmican Empire
Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Inbunden, 2014
1427 kr
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In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the …
Pemmican Empire
Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
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In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the …
Finding Directions West
Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada's Past
Av George Colpitts, Heather Devine
Häftad, 2017
401 kr
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In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys. This book anthology brings together studies exploring the way the west served as a place of constant movement between places of spiritual, subsistence and …
Troubled Tributaries
Alberta Anglers, Fish Fights, and the Race to Save Mountain Coldwater Streams, 1900 - 1930
Inbunden, 2026
694 kr
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Anglers knee-deep in Alberta's mountain streams after the First World War understood that there was something wrong. Coal mining, forestry, and irrigation were industrializing landscapes. Roads and railways brought unprecedented numbers of people to remote fishing grounds. Once home to abundant …
Troubled Tributaries
Alberta Anglers, Fish Fights, and the Race to Save Mountain Coldwater Streams, 1900 - 1930
Häftad, 2026
353 kr
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Anglers knee-deep in Alberta's mountain streams after the First World War understood that there was something wrong. Coal mining, forestry, and irrigation were industrializing landscapes. Roads and railways brought unprecedented numbers of people to remote fishing grounds. Once home to abundant …
North America’s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850
Inbunden, 2013
2593 kr
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In North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, Colpitts offers new perspectives on Europe's contact with America by examining the ideas, debates and questions arising in the trading that linked newcomers with Native people. European capitalization of the Indian Trade, …
