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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.

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

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.

The West was ripe with promise for those wishing to escape religious persecution, unproductive land, or intolerable living and working conditions. Some saw the Prairies as an ideal place to create a Utopian society. This group of essays presents the historiography of the Prairie West.

Explores some of the ways in which people define their membership in groups & their collective identity, as well as some of the challenges to the definition & maintenance of that identity. This collection of essays addresses such diverse topics as the history of Brazilian football & the concept of masculinity in the Mexican army.

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.

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.

Until the age of seven, Olga Barsony lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. In spring 1944, Olga & most of her family were interned in the Auspitz labour camp shortly after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. This Holocaust memoir expose the little-known Auspitz labour camp.

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'.

A collection of essays that bring together a diverse range of voices that speak to the issues of home, gender & identity. It includes information on the ideologies of the human body in the West, the challenges women face in securing the material needs to create healthy homes & bodies, & environments where feminist practices have made a difference.

Features description of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists.

A collection of letters that reveal much about the immigrant experience and detail how these pioneers fared in the early years of Alberta's history. It pictures the pioneer experience in detail, from the lonely homestead on the bald prairie to a well-developed rural community with railroads and towns, churches and schools.

Investigates the complex relationship between the role of policing, the political sphere, & social progress. This title attempts to analyse the effects on provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan of various social phenomena ranging from political radicals and vagrants, to prohibition bootleggers & black market profiteers.

Incorporating colour photographs, Constable's own letters, and descriptions of the painter from other historical material, this title constructs a close reading of landscape painting that engages literary imagination with visual art.

The plea was advertised in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking "strong energetic Medical Women with post-graduate experience in Midwifery" for "country work" in western Canada. A young Dr. Mary Percy was intrigued. After graduating with

Brings together contributions from established and merging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective fields.

Outlining the stages in party evolution, such as the recruitment of activists into the party and the search for a national profile, this book presents the history of Reform Party development. It offers the glimpse of a political party attempting to bridge the participatory demands of its members and the strategic plans of its leaders.

Examines how Albertans have interpreted themselves and their world through history and social studies curricula and texts from 1905 to 1980. This title shows that these courses, more than others, addressed issues of identity by creating the country & region's past.