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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Setting the Scene: A Timeline -- Introduction: The Slave Trade: An Ancient Practice -- Chapter One: The Beginning of the Slave Trade in North America -- Chapter Two: Slavery Expands Through the Colonies -- Chapter Three: Slavery in the New United States -- Chapter Four: The Abolitionists -- Chapter Five: Resistance and Rebellion -- Chapter Six: Unrest and War -- Chapter Seven: Reconstruction: The Fight for Freedom Continues -- Epilogue: The Long Way Forward -- Notes -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover

The human path across North America -- Ferry from Seattle -- Road Trip across Canada -- Dog sledding in Greenland -- Streetcar around Toronto -- Barge on the Mississippi -- Boat cruise on the Erie Canal -- Fly out of Atlanta -- Going West by train -- On horseback through Navajo Country -- On the Los Angeles Metro -- Trucking on the Pan American highway -- Shipping out of Costa Rica.

"Emphasizing the voices of activists, this book's diverse contributors examine communities' common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matters and Indigenous sovereignty. The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and Indigenous peoples in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The chapters offer instructors, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers a range of accessible case studies that create opportunities for comparative and intersectional analysis across geographical and ethnic boundaries"--

Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Communal Christians in North America -- CHAPTER 2. Origins and History -- CHAPTER 3. Immigration and Settlement in North America -- CHAPTER 4. Four Hutterite Branches -- CHAPTER 5. Beliefs and Practices -- CHAPTER 6. Life Patterns and Rites of Passage -- CHAPTER 7. Identity, Tradition, and Folk Beliefs -- CHAPTER 8. Education and Cultural Continuity -- CHAPTER 9. Colony Structure, Governance, and Economics -- CHAPTER 10. Population, Demography, and Defection

Focuses on the demand, supply, key features, and events that take place across the regions of Canada, the United States of America and Mexico. This handbook is a useful resource for researchers, students and practitioners interested in various aspects of tourism in North America

"Robert William Sandford's latest RMB manifesto invites the reader to separate the hype from the hope with respect to the outcomes of the 2015 Paris climate conference and in relation to humanity's dangerous new era--the Anthropocene. In responding to the urgency--and the opportunity--of getting sustainable development right, the United Nations engaged in numerous program announcements and international conversations during the final months of 2015. Most notable were the Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris and the long anticipated launch of Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among the many other indicators of quickening public awareness of climate issues, these two illustrate that sustainability and climate change are two sides of the same coin: in order to make any headway on the one, we must also deal with the other. Both affect all of humanity, and North America is something of a test case. North America in the Anthropocene maintains that human beings have entered a new historical epoch--the Anthropocene--in which our own economic activity has reached such planetary scale and power that we can no longer count on Earth's natural systems and functions to absorb negative human impacts on landscape and biodiversity. Whether we like it or not, we have to assume responsibility for staying within Earth-system boundaries. Climate stability is only one of those boundaries, but it is a critical one. This book attempts to address the question of why, when we clearly know the enormous risks we face, we are still not doing what is necessary to prevent climate disaster. The author introduces contemporary thinking by leading philosophers, ethicists and social scientists who do not believe that more information and greater individual thoughtfulness are necessarily going to be adequate to penetrate the thick skin of the status quo when it comes to addressing the climate threat. Rather, we need to better understand human nature and organizational inclinations and squarely face habits of collective thought that are holding us back from action. We also need to be frank about the ways in which disaster provides opportunity for rapid change in established public mindsets. The central tenet of this book is that what we as a society are facing is nothing less than a struggle to redefine our entire dominant mythology. If we want to survive and prosper in the Anthropocene, we will have to invent--and continuously reinvent--a ne ...