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Behold the Hero: General Wolfe and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century - Alan McNairn - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=JyiHlFiYdIQC
McNairn analyses representations of Wolfe in both popular culture and high art, from mass-produced ceramics to Benjamin West's famous painting of the death of Wolfe, from popular songs to the writings of Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole, Tobias Smollett,…
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Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada - Dirk Hoerder, Distinguished Visiting Professor Dirk Hoerder - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books/about/Creating_Societies.html?id=--6T46REQwAC&redir_esc=y/
Dirk Hoerder shows us that it is not shining railroad tracks or statesmen in Ottawa that make up the story of Canada but rather individual stories of life and labour - Caribbean women who care for children born in Canada, lonely prairie homesteaders,…
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Limiting the Proliferation of Weapons: The Role of Supply-Side Strategies - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=oM_jJYH3lq4C&pg=PA67#v=onepage
An international team of arms control experts addresses important questions raised by the use of export sales restrictions in controlling the spread of weapons. In non-technical language, they examine vital issues relating to ballistic missiles, as well as…
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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 - John G. Gibson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=m5fk5QPwXiwC
The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking…
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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 - John G. Gibson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=m5fk5QPwXiwC
The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking…
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Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North Before World War II - Barbara E. Kelcy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uiEnJwcmlw0C
Kelcey details their struggles with the domestic realities of setting up a home or living in the hostile conditions imposed by the geography, as well as their need to adjust the way they worked. The rich sources left by Christian missionaries provide…