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La grande aventure de l'égyptologie
By Robert Solé. 2019
Panorama des faits marquants de l'égyptologie depuis le début du XIXe siècle : la découverte des momies royales et de…
la tombe de Toutankhamon, le déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes ou encore le déplacement des obélisques en Europe.
A history of the world in 100 objects
By Neil MacGregor. 2011
British Museum director profiles one hundred pieces from the institution's collection that trace human history, from a stone chopping tool…
discovered in Tanzania in 1931--and estimated to be one of the first manmade objects--to a solar-powered lamp and charger manufactured in China in 2010. Bestseller. 2010
Finders keepers: a tale of archaeological plunder and obsession
By Craig Childs. 2010
Relic hunter and naturalist exposes the dark side of archaeology. Discusses the reasons people loot, citing cases of antiquities traffickers,…
immoral museum curators, and wealthy collectors. Argues that taking artifacts separates them from their history. Explains his own low-impact method of exploration. 2010
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By David Graeber, David Wengrow. 2021
Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing…
account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
The first North Americans: an archaeological journey (Ancient Peoples and Places Ser. #0)
By Brian M. Fagan, Brian Fagan. 2011
Anthropology professor and author of Cro-Magnon (DB 72886) surveys fifteen thousand years of Native American history and culture in North…
America. Discusses controversies over the first settlement and humans' role in animal extinction. Covers immigration routes and the diversity of hunter-gatherer societies. 2011
The floor of heaven: a true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon gold rush
By Howard Blum. 2011
Chronicles the discovery of gold in 1890s Alaska and the Canadian Klondike through the lives of three of the participants:…
cowboy-turned-Pinkerton-detective Charlie Siringo; George Carmack, who lived with a local tribe and became rich from mining; and con man Jefferson "Soapy" Smith. 2011
Niagara... la voie qui y mène
By Nicole V. Champeau. 2020
Dans cet essai poétique, l'auteure de Pointe-Maligne, l'infiniment oubliée (Prix du gouverneur général 2009) remonte cette fois le Saint-Laurent jusqu'aux…
chutes de Niagara pour nous raconter, avec son érudition et sa sensibilité, la beauté mythique de ce lieu, sacralisé par les Autochtones et découvert par les premiers Français d'Amérique.
La condition québécoise: une histoire dépaysante
By Jocelyn Létourneau. 2020
À un Québec qui change, voici un récit d'histoire au scénario changé. Qui pense la condition québécoise en la sortant…
de sa mémoire tragique et de sa culture de la séparation. Qui met l'emphase sur les adaptations et actualisations d'une société plutôt que sur ses détournements et empêchements. Qui voit les oscillations québécoises non pas à l'origine d'une succession d'inhibitions nationales, mais comme un mode d'évolution par lequel une collectivité n'a cessé de passer à l'avenir. On lira cet ouvrage comme une tentative de cadrer le parcours historique du Québec en dehors des mythistoires et du schéma narratif qui accueillent et charpentent habituellement son déroulement. On le considérera aussi comme un essai visant à poser les bases d'une nouvelle référence historiale, si ce n'est mémorielle, pour les Québécois d'aujourd'hui, vecteurs de leur revitalisation identitaire en cours
René Lévesque et nous: 50 regards sur l'homme et son héritage politique
By Marie Grégoire, Pierre Gince. 2020
En 1960, RENÉ LÉVESQUE fait le saut en politique avec l'«équipe du tonnerre» de Jean Lesage. Ministre des Ressources naturelles,…
l'ancien journaliste pilote le projet de nationalisation de l'électricité. Sa conviction profonde que le Québec doit être maître de son destin l'incite à fonder le Mouvement souveraineté-association, puis le Parti québécois. Une fois aux commandes de l'État, de 1976 à 1985, il poursuit l'héritage de la Révolution tranquille en multipliant les réformes.Profondément démocrate, René Lévesque aura jonglé tout au long de sa carrière politique avec la quête d'un pays et la gestion d'un État en mutation.À l'aube de son centième anniversaire de naissance, que reste-t-il de lui et de l'empreinte qu'il a voulu laisser sur le Québec? Les auteurs sont allés à la rencontre de membres de sa famille, d'amis, de collaborateurs, d'observateurs et d'adversaires pour tenter de répondre à cette question complexe. Ceux-ci se sont confiés avec franchise pour nous faire découvrir «leur» René Lévesque dans ce portrait intime et pluriel.
Searching for the Amazons: the real warrior women of the ancient world
By John Man. 2018
An exploration of the mythos of the Amazons, a tribe of female warriors. Discusses the stories told in many cultures…
about them and the past conclusions that they must have been merely myth. The author, however, uses research and archeological discoveries to demonstrate that they did, in fact, exist. 2018
Effrontées: l' histoire pas plate de 21 québécoises audacieuces
By Christine Renaud. 2021
Racontant sous forme narrative les moments clés de la carrière de plus d'une vingtaine de Québécoises inspirantes et audacieuses, ce…
livre, illustré par une douzaine d'illustratrices au talent indéniable, se démarque par l'originalité de son angle d'approche. Ce n'est qu'après avoir pris connaissance de l'histoire que le lecteur découvre à quelle femme québécoise elle se rapporte !
Vesuvius: a biography
By Alwyn Scarth. 2009
One of the world's most dangerous volcanoes and capable of destroying entire cities, Vesuvius has fascinated many for over two…
millennia. Scarth draws on research, eyewitness accounts, and other sources to depict the story of this violent volcano from ancient times until the early twenty-first century. 2009
Lives in ruins: archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble
By Marilyn Johnson. 2014
Examination of those who choose a career in the field of archaeology--the study of the material remains of culture. Discusses…
the ways in which people are drawn into the field--such as a love of Indiana Jones--challenges archaeologists face in the twenty-first century, and day-to-day lives of practitioners. 2014
At home in her tomb: Lady Dai and the ancient Chinese treasures of Mawangdui
By Sarah S. Brannen, Christine Liu-Perkins. 2014
Explores the mysteries of the Mawangdui (mah-wahng-dway) tombs, one of China's top archaeological finds, and sheds light on what life…
was like during the Han dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.). Details the burial and condition of Lady Dai's body and cause of death. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2014
Papyrus: the plant that changed the world, from ancient Egypt to today's water wars
By John Gaudet, John J Gaudet. 2014
Ecologist examines the natural history of the papyrus plant, from ancient Egypt to the modern era. Describes its usage in…
paper, and as a building material, food, and fuel. Explains the role it plays in its ecosystem. Theorizes on its uses in the future. 2014
Chronicles the early settlement of North America by European peoples of myriad social backgrounds and religious affiliations. Explores the often…
brutal conflicts with native tribes, African slaves, and among the immigrants themselves as they sought to survive and prosper in the New World. Violence. 2012
The battle for the fourteenth colony: America's war of liberation in Canada, 1774-1776
By Mark R. Anderson. 2013
Examines the American colonies' campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free Canadians from British rule. Details military…
operations by colonial fighters and Canadian partisans against loyalist forces and assesses the impact of America's first foreign war of liberation. Violence. 2013
Brève histoire de la Révolution tranquille
By Martin Pâquet, Stéphane Savard. 2021
Pour saisir rapidement les aspects essentiels de la Révolution tranquille. Un livre à la fine pointe de la recherche sur…
le Québec en histoire et en sciences sociales. Une approche centrée sur une institution en particulier : l'État québécois.
Du diesel dans les veines: la saga des camionneurs du Nord
By Mark Fortier, Serge Bouchard. 2021
De novembre 1975 à octobre 1976, Serge Bouchard a voyagé avec des camionneurs dans le Nord-Ouest québécois. Son but :…
étudier et observer leur travail pour en faire le sujet de sa thèse de doctorat. Serge Bouchard et Mark Fortier ont transformé la matière de cette recherche ethnographique unique en un portrait vivant et pénétrant du monde des routiers. Ce livre nous entraîne bien au-delà des routes du Nord à l’époque des grands chantiers de la Baie-James. Il nous parle des mystères de la vie, de la liberté et de la création.
The manor: three centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island
By Mac K Griswold, Mac Griswold. 2013
Cultural landscape historian uses primary documents and archaeological research to reconstruct the history of the Georgian-style Sylvester Manor on Shelter…
Island, New York. Traces the Quaker plantation owners through fifteen generations and discusses their relationships with the Manhansett Indians, roles in the Revolutionary War, and uses of slave labor. 2013