North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be described as a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. However, Greenland, because it is on the North American Tectonic Plate, is often included as part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …

Edmonton, one of the most northerly cities in North America, would not have been feasible, let alone imaginable


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black …

Martin-Shields 13 Migration Governance in North America Policy, Politics, and Community Edited by


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity. Generations of Mennonites and …

connections. My fieldwork in Indonesia and in North America was made possi- ble by grants from the Australian and Indonesia. For most of their history in North America, Mennonites have been a rural people. During works between diverse Anabaptist groups across North America, while also serving to connect distant peo- Muslim. This translational move- ment between North America and Indonesia is charged with potential for donor constituents and mcc administrators in North America. My focus, however, was on the experiences of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to

“A South View of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in North America,” ca. 1760. lac 33 1.3 “A View of Cataraqui Lawrence is the second-largest river by volume in North America, and at just under 750 miles the third-longest the landmass in the middle of which it lies, North America, is old (albeit unevenly so), and is the proximate Nonhuman forces had caused dramatic changes to North America, and sub- sequent anthropogenic disruptions some of the local peculiarities. Northern North America in particular became a “new world” many times


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 September 2024 English

A memoir about abandoning an exhausting commuter lifestyle to move to a cabin in the woods, embracing imperfection while cultivating a life of care for self and nature. Alice Irene …

perform long migrations, some that breed in North America winter as far south as Argentina,” write the


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English

of many Anabaptists (Mennonites, Amish) to the Alsace, Southern Germany, the Netherlands and North America. The momentous historical events of the Reformation, which shook Europe for two hundred years gripping and very moving moral painting of a period in European history with great impact also on North America and readers in the United States and Canada. Consequently, her book was translated to English

Alsace, Southern Germany, the Netherlands and North America. The momentous historical events of the Reformation European history with great impact also on North America and readers in the United States and Canada


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024

Le professeur Pierre-Olivier Pineau, titulaire de la Chaire en gestion de l’énergie HEC-Montréal (École des hautes études commerciales, Université de Montréal), est une figure avantageusement connue au Québec.Intervenant souvent dans …

gas-guzzling cars (SUVs are increasingly popular in North America, including in Quebec), but also to land use


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English

Wondering what a Republican administration’s foreign policy would look like should they take the White House in 2024? Read Elbridge Colby’s The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age …

possessing nearly one- quarter of global GDP. North America takes third place because it is the American OF PAGE Colin Robertson Book Review Security North America & NORAD NATO International Politics Defence


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English

This is Dennis McConaghy’s third book, one that follows Dysfunction: Canada After Keystone XL and the Donner Prize winner, Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future in …

windmills and batteries, and this is true for North America as much as it is for Germany.” 8/31/24, 6:09


Fraser Institute · 27 August 2024 English

The ESG movement calls for public companies and investors in public companies to identify and voluntarily implement environmental, social, and governance initiatives—ostensibly in the public interest. One school of thought …

4.9 percent for multinationals operating in North America, consistent with integrated inter- national


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