Bøger udgivet af University of Calgary Press

Attempts to point the way towards a sustainable future for museums by examining institutions that have found creative ways to attain a socially responsive model for cultural resource management. This title features articles which act as the starting points for any discussion on what museums have been and what they should strive to be.

Visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs came into prominence in middle age, doing their most significant work in their mature years. This title explores the evolving perceptions of "self" in the work of these four Canadian women.

Between 1882 and 1920, settlers from Ontario established social and economic structures at Abernethy, Saskatchewan. By virtue of hard work, perseverance, and the critical advantage of having arrived first, they transformed the Pheasant Plains into a prosperous farming community. This book traces the area's political and economic development.

Covering topics that range from teaching history, to the concept of property rights and the discipline of history in the television age, this collection of essays alter the notion of how we 'make history'. It shows that we are never fully able to bend history to our will, and that as we attempt to do so, we are often shocked at the turns it takes.

A monograph on the contact between Aboriginal people & Europeans during the era of polar exploration. It includes a treatment & analysis of Aboriginal-European relations in the Ellesmere Island region of the High Arctic (now the Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada) in the 19th & 20th centuries.

Presents an account of Canada's military at a crucial time in history. This book focuses on the personalities, politics and pressures that define Canada's involvement in WW2.

Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative has implications for a wide spectrum of contemporary thought. This collection of essays explores many of the areas to which his narrative strategies can be applied, including architecture, psychology, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, ethics, sociology, medieval & contemporary literature, and religious studies.

Includes the papers that represent the proceedings of an international symposium on the paleobiology & evolution of the bivalves held at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Canada, 29 September to 2 October 1995. This book presents a broad spectrum of research on fossil & living bivavles.

Reta Cowley was a painter in step with changes taking place in her country. Working primarily on location, Cowley painted the landscape around her home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and in 1964 received national recognition with a touring exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada. This book offers a picture of this influential painter.

Promotes reflection on the socio-ethical and policy and regulatory aspects of genomics and biotechnology. This collection of essays illuminates the common themes surrounding this contested issue and considers the politics, public perception, ethics, media representations, and future possibilities of genomics.

Includes essays that provide readings of how the social structures of Canada and of the respective countries of origin - including their ethnicity, ancestry, and lineage - interact to shape the identities, expectations, and aspirations of African Canadians.

Presents a study of the evolution of the component aspects of drilling technology in Alberta, from the evolution of power sources & drill bit designs to the composition of drilling muds & the use of fishing tools. This title includes explanations of the costs & risks of oil well drilling & of the larger issue of industrial technology.

Features essays that explore the pressing issues & challenges that theories of globalisation present for postcolonial studies, including the difficulties of rethinking how 'marginality' might be defined in a new globalised world & the problems of imagining social transformation within globalisation.

Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology and ancient landscapes. This book contains papers that were selected from the 34th Chacmool Archaeological Conference to examine human interaction with the environment.

Presents a fresh perspective on Partition - the birth of two nation states - India and Pakistan, and the end of the colonial period in India. This title studies the trauma experienced by survivors of Partition - the British who were forced to leave India, and the educated Indians, for whom this moment marked a rite of passage.

The Canadian War Museum's art collection is one of the finest in the world and the single largest repository of official war art in Canada. This title takes readers into a time and place, enabling a deeper understanding of the artists, their compelling, often disturbing, but always profound images.

A collection that stems from a conference at University of Calgary that included some of the most established names in the field of women's history in the US & Canada, as well as younger scholars, activists in the Aboriginal community & in farm women's organisations, volunteers in historical societies working to preserve women's voices.

Presents the story of Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company & a Cree woman. This title reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual, using materials from the Hudson's Bay Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and Bird's descendants living on the American Blackfoot Reservation in Browning, Montana.

Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. This title addresses it and includes case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica.

Nunavik is the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. This book offers a history of the development of self-government in education in Arctic Quebec, from the arrival of the first traders & missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century up to the creation of the Kativik School Board & its evaluation in the 1990s.

Details the natural history of the plants & animals found in the Galapagos Islands. This title discusses management and conservation of the Galapagos National Park, and includes visitor information and notes about the various tourist sites. It offers an index & checklist of plants & animals with page references & a glossary of technical terms.