The old buildings and historic places of B.C. form a "roadside memory", a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history. This book is a record of these places and the...
Historic sites
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Auteur:Naylor, CarlSommaire:Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two decades of underwater adventures in maritime archaeology, Carl Naylor offers a colorfully candid account of remarkable discoveries in the Palmetto...
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Auteur:Johnston, Susan A.Sommaire:Professor Susan A. Johnstone of the George Washington University applied an archaeological perspective to the bigger myths and mysteries in world history, using the scientific method to suggest the most likely scenarios for interpreting...
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Poet and educator Clint Smith explores the places where the history of slavery has been preserved, if not fully reckoned with. Included are New Orleans, Monticello Plantation, Angola Prison, Blandford Cemetery, and others hidden in...
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Auteur:Dallison, Robert L.Sommaire:Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over...
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Auteur:Gilbert, Anne, Bock, Michel, Thériault, Joseph-YvonSommaire:Dans Les lieux de mémoire, Pierre Nora affirme que "la mémoire s'enracine dans le concret, l'espace, le geste, l'image et l'objet" (1984, xix). Entre lieux et mémoire adopte une perspective semblable et...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally...
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Auteur:Foer, JoshuaSommaire:It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-the dazzling...
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Auteur:Roeder, AnnetteSommaire:Introduces 13 famous buildings to children and tells the most important things about each and the architects who build them.
