Bøger udgivet af University of Calgary Press

J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917--1970) was an important figure in the history of Banff and western Canada's artistic community. Inspired by the locale, Taylor spent his career striving to depict the idea of the mountain, moving over time from traditional representations of nature to an intuitive perception of the essential elements of landscape—rock, water, and sky. Always, he sought to capture his ideas through the development of a new visual language. He applied this new vernacular to a range of studies encompassing portraiture through to other landscapes. Filled with images of his work and photographs of his life as an artist and teacher in western Canada, this book is the first to focus completely on J.B. Taylor, his importance to the western Canadian and Banff artistic communities, and his role in the transition from traditional, eastern, North American and European landscape ideals and technique to a more abstract representation and the formation of a new aesthetic of the wilderness based on the mountains of the West.

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. This book brings into view the development of ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies. Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, and Rosemary Sullivan.

During the years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. This collection analyzes the films that reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity politics, sexuality, the body, the family, and community.

Canada's role as world power and its sense of itself in the global landscape has been largely shaped and defined over the past 100 years by the changing policies and personalities in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). This book discusses a century of Canada's national interests and DFAIT's role in defining them.

Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. This book explores Cameron's art and philosophy, covering different aspects of Cameron's art.

Presents the discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. This book argues that Berger and Tanners work is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss.

When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks.

Mount Royal College began in Calgary in 1910 as a small, private residential Methodist institution offering advanced elementary and secondary schooling to students from both the city and the rural hinterland. This work examines the process of inserting new degree programs and universities into the framework of academic credibility in Canada.

'Dirty Thirties' is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression. This title contends that the 'Dirty Thirties' actually began much earlier and were connected only peripherally to the Depression itself.

Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. This title recounts his varied careers as journalist, government publicity writer, popular historian, archivist and museum administrator, speaker, and lecturer. It offers an account of his childhood in Edmonton in the 1930's.

Explores four key aspects of romance for the years 1900 to 1930: what average Canadians sought in a marriage partner; the specific rules they were expected to follow and in most cases did follow in their romantic quest; the many hardships they endured along the way; and, how the defining event of that era the Great War affected such things.

Offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. This book encourages examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. It addresses the history of social work in African countries and the hegemony of western knowledge in the field.

How might comparative philosophy and religion change if the concepts and categories of non-Western philosophies and religions were taken as primary? This book explores this question through analytic and phenomenological Western approaches, infused with fresh strategies and modalities derived from or inspired by non-Western traditions.

The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who bring various resources to the challenges that AIDS, gender, governance, and development post to the people of Africa. This title presents research in Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa, providing the geographic African coverage on the topic of African chieftaincy.

Illuminating the history of massification of university education in Nigeria, this title contributes to our understanding of the challenges of nation building in multi-ethnic and religious societies in Africa.

Provides a summary of warfare in sub-Saharan Africa. Ranging from postcolonial insurgency in Rhodesia to the strife in the Horn of Africa, from the horrors of Rwanda and the Congo to devastating civil wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Liberia, this book tracks seventeen different conflicts.

Encourages scholars and practitioners to rethink the relationships between leisure, social policy, and human development. This work questions how and why we have come to value paid employment as the marker of social success and individual self-worth, and investigates the role that leisure might play in its stead.

Amphibians & reptiles (herpetofauna) are a significant but much neglected component of the natural economy of the province of Alberta. This book features colour photographs of the species taken by renowned wildlife photographer, Dr Wayne Lynch.

Canada's first Immigration Act (1869) included Belgium among the 'preferred countries' from which immigrants should be sought, but unlike many other European countries, Belgium did not encourage its nationals to emigrate to relieve economic, demographic, and social crises.

Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy.

Presents the collected memories of Lola Rozsa - of her life and service to her family, her church, and her community as she and her husband, Ted, made their way from the tiny towns of the Depression-era, dust bowl southern plains to the burgeoning oil fields of Alberta in 1949.

Marion Nicoll (1909-1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of dedication to her vision regardless of professional or personal challenges.

Alberta's oil sands represent a vast oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for 475 years. This book presents the history of the oil sands project and a window on the nature of the complex relationships between industry, government, and transnational players.

An anthology dedicated to the poetry of the Alberta landscape, townscape, cityscape & countryside from the writers who have travelled the main roads and gravel roads of this sprawling province.

John Snow was a farm boy who played the violin, a navigator for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in enemy skies, a student of Henry Moore and British modernism, a loans officer at the Royal Bank of Canada, a lithographer ...and an animateur of the arts in Calgary. This book studies this influential figure in the cultural development of Calgary.