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A historically accurate study that takes no sides, this book is the first complete document of Treaties 8 and 11 between the Canadian government and the Native people at the turn of the nineteenth century.

In this timely book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organisations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

Why has violence been a predominant topic in contemporary Argentine film and literature? What conclusions can be drawn from the dissemination of violent images and narratives that depict violence in Argentina? This title features essays that analyze the extent to which violence communicates structural inequalities or lines of fissure in Argentina.

A collection of essays that tries to discover the Canadian 'self' through exploration of the terrorist other. It views the war on terror from unique eyes. It defines the boundaries of terror, examines its construction in the media, and explores its relationship to the Muslim 'other'.

A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off. Offering a study of the Igbo region of south-eastern Nigeria, the author shows that regional dynamics and local responses played vital roles in the era of transformation.