Bøger udgivet af University of Calgary Press

Sheds light on the institutional, economic, & public development of Alberta from a financial perspective. This title documents many of the financial decisions of the Alberta government, including the railway scandal, the rise of Social Credit, & the province's default in the Great Depression.

Documents how the beef cattle industry in Alberta responded to the challenges following the end of the open-range era through two world wars and the Great Depression. This title provides a case study of Canada's economic development and settlement history as the cattle industry matured and survived into the modern era.

Presents a critique of the academy by women affiliated with universities and colleges across Canada. This title explores topics familiar to women working in academia around the world: the clash between work and family, the politics of academe, the rifts between an academic career and political activism.

An anthology that collects twentieth century short fiction, excerpts from novels, & non-fiction. It explores what writers - past & present - can tell us what it means to be Albertan - & Canadian.

Edith Fowke was a renowned Canadian folklorist, folk song collector, researcher, writer, & teacher who during her long career recorded nearly 2000 songs. The songs, mostly of Irish origin, were popular among settlers to the Ottawa valley. This title includes a detailed musical analysis that outlines the meter, scale, & range of each song.

A personal account of the Honourable Justice Mark MacGuigan's - Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs - experiences with Canadian foreign policy under Pierre Elliott Trudeau between 1980-1982. It chronicles the events in which he participated, offering personal insights into his motivations and reactions.

A book about memory & meaning. It brings to light the reflections & stories that women have constructed around the objects they have treasured, which in the past may have been deemed unimportant.

A collection of interviews with some of North America's foremost cultural critics & theorists, including Frederic Jameson, J Hillis Miller, Hayden White. It covers topics such as culture, ideology, history, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalisation, the role of the university & the role of the intellectual in today's society.

Jeanne was the daughter of a Roman Catholic priest who was excommunicated from the Church because he married a woman in his parish. This is a memoir that recounts how the Church lifted the ban, on specific conditions, one of which was for the family to leave Quebec.

With one foot in the world of his ancestral people, & the other in the realm of Canadian society, Frederick R McDonald paints from a unique perspective & uses his art to convey a First Nations message to viewers & readers. This is an illustrated retrospective of the life & art of Woodland Cree painter, Frederick R McDonald.

What baggage do explorers bring to their experiences? This book summarises the various factors that influence the writing & interpretation of exploration narratives, demonstrating the limitations of the assumption that there is a direct relationship between what the explorer saw & what the text describes.

Celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market. This title explains how the market managed to survive & thrive through the city's growth from a frontier outpost to a high-rise metropolis. It discusses the relationships between agricultural values & urban development.

Chronicles Unifarm, one of the most enduring agricultural organisations of its kind, from its development in the 1970s to its reorganisation as Wild Rose Agricultural Producers in 1995. This book provides discussions of co-operative philosophy, marketing boards, and the importance of education and training for members of the rural community.

Includes a contribution to the growing body of work on Canadian environmental history. This book places a history of ethnicity & environment in the Trent Valley within the literature of settler societies of Upper Canada & North America. It looks at the Trent Valley's geography, prehistory & Native People.

Since Brian Moore's death in 1999, there have been no systematic pieces of full-length Moore scholarship. This book represents a literary treatment & fitting tribute to Moore as novelist. It includes a study of the writings on Brian Moore that considers the convergence of literature with theology.

Explores the causes, course and consequences of the Mexican Revolution in Coahuila. This book examines the movements led by Coahuila's native sons, Madero & Carranza that helped to define the Mexican Revolution. It includes a detailed history of the north-eastern state of Coahuila from the late Porfirian era to approximately 1920.

A comprehensive and analytical history of the state of Veracruz during the Mexican revolution. It offers a politico-military analysis and an evaluation of social-revolutionary relations in the epoch of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. It draws on archives from Mexico.

Spans four centuries of weed history from sixteenth-century England to mid-twentieth century Canada. This title looks at topics such as weed biology/ecology, environmental history, herbicide development, noxious weed legislation, & the emergence of weed science as a distinct field of scientific inquiry.

Rising from humble origins, Luther H Holton became an entrepreneur extraordinaire, with interests in real estate, railway building, steamboats, & banking. Drawing from archival sources, this title creates a portrait of this little-known but extraordinary figure who played such a significant role in the shaping of Canada.

Deals with some basic thermodynamic & transport properties of fluids & solids that are of interest in engineering applications. This book discusses various notions about the basic structure of matter, fundamental concepts of our physical world & the conditions of equilibrium between different phases of matter.

Offers a glimpse of life during Alberta's early settlement & development & play out against a backdrop of sometimes dramatic family & political affairs back in Belgium.

Rewrites the literary history of Canada from a feminist ecological perspective, exploring the cultural myth which identifies women with non-human nature. This title includes series of essays that examines the lives & work of nine women poets, from Isabella Valancy Crawford in the nineteenth century to Marilyn Dumont in the late twentieth.

Features letters and articles written by Dutch immigrants during the 1920's, which offer fresh insight into the struggles the Dutch faced attempting to fit into their new country, and open up the inner dimensions of the immigrants: the reasons for their emigration, their hopes, fears, and their experiences in Canada.

Before the Fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the internal organs of sacrificial animals on temple floors, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. This book portrays the history of land and life in Alberta, from the Ice Ages to the present.

The Crowsnest Pass is famous for many coal-mining tragedies that afflicted the region in the early twentieth century. This title portrays the psychological and sociological features of both the individual and collective responses to death and danger, providing a picture of mining communities.

Tells the story of Roberta MacAdams, the first woman elected to the Alberta legislature. This book describes MacAdams' journey overseas, her work at a large military hospital in London, and the personal sacrifices she endured during the war.

Toponymy - the study of place names - can provide a wealth of interesting information about a particular region. This book of Alberta place names includes entries for a select number - about a quarter - of officially named cultural & geographical features in the province.

Tells over one hundred Arctic stories about adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, cultural heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. While some of the biographies are of people still active in the North, this title also includes stories from as far back as the sixteenth century.

Considers the dialectics of humanism and post-humanism, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity inherent in the "Star Trek" series franchise. This title sheds light on how the "Star Trek" narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States.

The decision in 1978 by the Canadian government to allow cruise missile testing in the high arctic by their US allies was a controversial one. This title considers each aspect of this decades-long struggle, from the military & the political, to the protesters & the public.