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When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the 'cheerful helpmate' and the grim deprivation of the 'reluctant immigrant'. This title shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era.

The Walrond Ranch, a cattle and horse operation in the foothills of southern Alberta, was one of the four giants of the livestock grazing industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This book features an environmental and economic study of one of the so-called 'great' ranches on the northern Great Plains of North America.

One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some 13 years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of 'sabotage', and sent to the Gulag for ten years. This is a biography of Ermolaev.

How can we make the best use of the places we live in? In recent years, environmental conservation and sustainable development have become critical parts of the planning equation. This book presents the ABC Method of approach to planning.

Plant fossils have helped scientists reconstruct the natural surroundings that supported the growth and evolution of dinosaurs - their food sources and habitat. This book covers fossil plants within the province of Alberta since 1949.

Many ageing adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. This book studies the effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors.

Offers a look at the educational policies and practices of the presidency of Plutarco Elias Calles in post-revolutionary Mexico. This title examines the Calles government's attempts to centralise control over education in the US-Mexican borderlands region and to transform its rural and indigenous inhabitants into more 'mainstream' Mexicans.

Explores how African shrines, in their diverse forms, are more than just points of worship - they are powerful symbols of ethnic solidarity, group cohesion, and knowledge about the landscape. This book shows how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies.

Focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. This book examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces.

Presents a collection of academic papers from the 2005 Chacmool archaeological conference. This book features chapters, each focusing on the discussion and application of various 'tools' for archaeological analysis and interpretation, including micro- and macro-botanical analysis, experimental study, off-site survey, and lithic use-wear.

Offers a scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. This book provides a historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics such as popular TV ("The Trailer Park Boys"), early TV ("The Don Messer Show") and the work of filmmakers such as Bill MacGillivray and Andrea Dorfman.

Explores the economic relationship that existed between the Blood Indian reserve and the surrounding region of southern Alberta between 1884 and 1939.

Offers an history of East Greenland. This book summarises indigenous settlements over four millennia and describes European explorations since the Norse. It recounts each of the European and American expeditions, relying on the explorers' original accounts, as well as on the author's narration.

Palace intrigues & clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), the author reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in Mexican history.

Examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state's relationship to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also examining the often contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina.

Bob Scriver is best known for his work in bronze and for his pivotal role in the rise of 'cowboy art'. Living and working on the Montana Blackfoot Reservation, Scriver created a bronze foundry, a museum, and a studio - an atelier based on classical methods, but with local Blackfoot artisans. This title is a biography of sculptor Bob Scriver.

There is little doubt that Canadian media & cultural institutions have been buffeted by the sheer magnitude of new communication technologies. This title illuminates the present media climate, & in doing so, suggests challenging paths forward that utilises the array of media technology to strengthen a Canadian cultural identity.

Highlights transboundary research and practices being undertaken within and across the Pacific border regions of North America. This book focuses on critical areas of international concern and engagement: land and water use planning; regional growth management; trade and transportation corridors; environmental education; and travel and tourism.

Incorporating an array of subjects pertaining to planning, producing, analysing, & theorising theatre, this title includes strategies for re-creating theatre for students whose first language is not French.

It has been said that education in post-colonial Africa is in a state of crisis. Policies and practices from Eurocentric colonial regimes have carried over, intertwining with challenges inherent in the political and economic climate. This book examines education in the African context.

Exploring Latin American cultural identities from multiple vantage points, this collection addresses such phenomena as migration, globalisation, & gender, & examines the ways in which individuals relate to & identify with one another.

Cross-border issues between Canada & the US have increasingly become a hot-button political topic as well as a burgeoning area of study. This collection presents views on the comparison of the Canadian & American Wests & the various methodologies involved.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a storied history as the progenitor & stalwart defender of Canadian cinematic culture. This title examines a period at the National Film Board when its creative output & guiding principles reflected less the cultural mainstream, identifying instead more with the surging wave of International Communism.

Offers a perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters between the Berens River Ojibwa & Christian missionaries between 1875 & 1940 moving beyond a simple chronicle of the introduction & adoption of Christian elements by the Ojibwa to recognise & highlight the complicated ebb & flow of ideas & beliefs between these two groups.

A World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st Alberta Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, that was compiled & written by McGill in the 1930s.

Gives readers a background on the competing tensions of conservation and international economics. Suitable for those concerned about conservation and the future of the world's forests, this memoir underscores the intricacies and intertwining of forest policy, economics, and public policy.

Delves into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. This title introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. It examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal 'turf'.