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In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to nearby Indigenous communities. In Under Pressure,...

Playing Out of Bounds investigates the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT), an annual event that began in the 1930s in the streets of Manhattan and now attracts 1200 competitors from the U.S. and Canada. Its two key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891480471Author A.L. BeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher The...

This title offers a rare glimpse into a successful, but little known, immigrant community. The Copts, or Egyptian Christians, are a relatively small and tight-knit ethno-religious group, numbering perhaps three thousand people and living mostly in the...

By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina's complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Peron and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has...

The collected writings of a leading authority on Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity.Book InformationISBN 9780773530218Author Raymond BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University...

The last decades of the seventeenth century were marked by persistent, bloody conflicts between the French and their Native allies on the one side and the Iroquois confederacy on the other. In the summer of 1701, 1,300 representatives of forty First...

Modern Kenya is a fascinating volume of essays that provide a unique perspective on some of the current issues facing this African nation. Written by Colorado professors and teachers who completed a Fulbright study program in Kenya, the fifteen essays in...

In 1737, an obscure painter, poet, and scholar, Shi Zhenlin, published a dreamy rambling memoir in which he described a talented and persecuted peasant woman poet named Shuang-qing. Because of her exquisite beauty, people assumed she was a banished...

What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology's most important and intensively studied world regions? In this book, Professor Bruce Knauft draws together and critically reanalyzes what we know about major features of Melanesian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472061105Author Irving A. LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Scandinavian societies have historically, and problematically, been understood as homogeneous, when in fact they have a long history of ethnic and cultural pluralism due to colonialism and territorial conquest. After World War II, Sweden, Denmark, and...

Jackie Chan's high-flying stunts, giant pandas, and even the unintentionally hilarious English subtitles that often accompany Hong Kong's films are among the many targets of Kwai-Cheung Lo's in-depth study of Hong Kong popular culture.  Drawing on...

Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997. Nearly half of those returned within the next several years. Filled with detailed, first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong...

"Accent on Privilege" looks at the complexities of immigration, asking how native and immigrant construct race, gender, class and national identity. Katharine Jones investigates how white English immigrants live in the United States and how they use...

In Haitians in Michigan, Michael Largey chronicles the challenges facing Haitian immigrants and their U.S.-born children as they seek to maintain their cultural identity in the United States.Beginning with a useful outline of Haitian political history,...

The first part of this volume is devoted is devoted to synoptical and analytical examinations by historians of attempts to root modern science in China during the Republican period. The second contains reports by scientists who have been involved in...

Despite their twin positions as two of North America's most iconic Italian neighborhoods, South Philly and Toronto's Little Italy have functioned in dramatically different ways since World War II. Inviting readers into the churches, homes, and businesses...

An authoritative and comprehensive compilation of the ancient knowledge of Inuit elders.An authoritative and comprehensive compilation of the ancient knowledge of Inuit elders.About the AuthorJohn Bennett is a researcher, writer, and editor specializing...

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part, we have thrown out the antiquated notions of the 1800s, giving way to a more realistic, sociocultural view of the world. The United States is, perhaps more...

La transculturalite constitue une nouvelle facon de concevoir les cultures, c'est-adire non plus comme des ilots distincts, mais plutot comme des reseaux interactifs de sens et de pratiques. Ces identites transculturelles qui n'entrent pas aisement dans...

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection...

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on...

Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing 'War on Terror' have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging. In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of...

The textbook The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future is a massive book that collects diverse materials and often differing opinions, presenting a challenge to students accustomed to more conventional texts. This Study Guide has been designed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512744Author Margaret ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891480662Author Thomas John HudakFormat HardbackPage Count 795Imprint University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891480433Author A. Terry RamboFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891480808Author Thomas John HudakFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891480679Author William J. GedneyFormat HardbackPage Count 1232Imprint University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher The...

Marius Grazulis recounts the history of an immigrant group that has struggled to maintain its identity. Grazulis estimates that about 20 per cent of the 1.6 million Lithuanians who immigrated to the United States arrived on American shores between 1860...

The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in economic history. Professor Lockwood, assistant director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...

“Odd Lovoll provides fascinating and important insights about the distinctive presence in American life of Norwegian immigrants and their ancestors. Then again, I might be biased.” —Walter F. Mondale, Norwegian American and former U.S. Vice...

Growing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit, colored marshmallows, and...

This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between...

Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating...

All over Western Europe, the lot of many non-Western immigrants is one of marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has...

How strong and how significant is the interaction between migrants and homelands in the late 20th century? Have the processes of globalization and transnational interaction produced new forms of nationalism or at least altered the old ones? By using...

Canadian Sikhs have seen great changes in the lives of their communities, which are primarily concentrated in larger urban centres, especially Vancouver and the British Columbia lower mainland. In The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar...

Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. This boof recounts the dynastic convolutions and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and...