Böcker utgivna av University of Calgary Press

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.

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.

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.

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.