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Author : John Blue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Alberta, Past and Present written by John Blue and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric John Hanson
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380904
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Eric J. Hanson's Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950 written by Eric John Hanson and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Hanson Albertas first, and arguably greatest, economist wrote a number of influential books on federal-provincial relations, education finance, health care finance, and energy economics. His doctoral thesis was entitled A Financial History of Alberta, 1905-1950 and was found by Paul Boothe at the University of Alberta library while Boothe was doing research on Alberta government spending almost forty-five years after it was written. This "forgotten gem" sheds light on the institutional, economic, and public development of the province from a financial perspective. With a detailed and analytical introduction, this edited work provides historical perspective on the perennial problems facing Alberta's fiscal managers: wildly fluctuating revenues, in-migration, seemingly insatiable demands for infrastructure, high-quality public services, and resistance to taxes while exuding an optimistic attitude for the future.
Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1926836588
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Working People in Alberta written by Alvin Finkel and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Author : William Marsden
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0676979130
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Stupid to the Last Drop written by William Marsden and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future. In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet-bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells. In so doing, it is running out of water, destroying its range land, wiping out its forests and wildlife and spewing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, adding to global warming at a rate that is unrivalled in Canada or almost anywhere else in the world. It’s digging, drilling and blasting its way to oblivion, becoming the ultimate symbol of Canada’s – and the world’s – pathological will to self-destruct. Nowhere has the world seen such colossal environmental destruction as is being wreaked on Alberta. At one point the province even went so far as to consider a scientist’s idea of nuking its underbelly to get at the tar sands.Stupid to the Last Droplooks at the increasingly violent geopolitical forces that are gathering as the world’s gas and oil dwindle and the Age of Oil begins its inevitable slide towards oblivion. As Canadians deplete their energy reserves, selling them off to Americans at bargain-basement prices, no thought is given to conservation or the long-term needs of the nation. In this powerful polemic, William Marsden journeys across the heart of a province seized by the destructive forces of greed, power and the energy business, and envisions a very bleak future.
Author : Hugh A. Dempsey
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1772030791
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Great Blackfoot Treaties written by Hugh A. Dempsey and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders, unscrupulous wolfers, smallpox epidemics, and the encroachment of white settlers on traditional hunting grounds. These factors led to widespread poverty and demoralization, forcing the Blackfoot to appeal to the Canadian government for protection. The result of this appeal was Treaty Seven, one of eleven numbered treaties signed across western Canada between 1871 and 1921. Under its terms, the Blackfoot gave up all of southern Alberta in exchange for reserves based upon five people per square mile. In practice, the treaty rendered the Blackfoot powerless and wholly dependent on the government. The Great Blackfoot Treaties examines the context and enormous impact of Treaty Seven, as well as other treaties affecting the Blackfoot during this time period.
Author : Tim Alberta
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062896369
Total Pages : 891 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book American Carnage written by Tim Alberta and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but why it happened…. [An] indispensable work.”—Washington Post Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: they had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural identity, lit a fire under the right. Republicans regained power in Congress but spent that time fighting among themselves. With these struggles weakening the party’s defenses, and with more and more Americans losing faith in the political class, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to launch his campaign in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the GOP can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. Loaded with explosive original reporting and based on hundreds of exclusive interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of a political era.
Author : Eliezer Segal
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381315
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Ask Now of the Days that are Past written by Eliezer Segal and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays from various topics in Jewish history and traditional religious literature demonstrates the diverse aspects of Jewish tradition that can still speak with familiarity to modern 'western' culture. Though the essays are on topics such as religious custom and scholarship, community, liturgy, and interfaith relationships, they are designed for a non-academic audience, using humour and insight to stress themes that speak to contemporary situations.
Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1897425805
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book The West and Beyond written by Sarah Carter and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of "The West and Beyond" is to evaluate and appraise the state of Western Canadian history, to acknowledge and assess the contributions of historians of the past and present, to showcase the research interests of a new generation of scholars, to chart new directions for the future, and stimulate further interrogations of our past.-- The book is broken into five sections and contains articles from both established and new scholars that broadly reflect findings of the conference "The West and Beyond:-- Historians Past, Present and Future" held in Edmonton, Alberta in the summer of 2008.-- The editors hope the collection will encourage dialogue among generations of historians of the West and among practitioners of diverse approaches to the past.-- The collection also reflects a broad range of disciplinary and professional interests suggesting a number of different ways to understand the West.
Author : Norman Charles Conrad
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380122
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Reading the Entrails written by Norman Charles Conrad and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the internal organs of sacrificial animals on temple floors, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Alberta's past sacrifices -- reading her entrails -- Norman Conrad believes that we might dimly see at apparition of Alberta's future. This controversial book vividly portrays the history of land and life in Alberta, from the Ice Ages to the present. Making no apology for his criticism of government, regulators and large corporations, Norman Conrad makes a strident plea for Alberta's dangerously imperiled environment and presents a model that can be applied anywhere.
Author : Michael Wagner
Publisher : Freedom Press Canada Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780973275797
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Alberta written by Michael Wagner and published by Freedom Press Canada Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner's account serves as an expos of how (mainly liberal) federal government policies have been designed to exploit the West, and Alberta in particular. This is a book that deserves to be read by every citizen concerned with this province's peculiar politics.--Dr. Leon Craig, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alberta.
Author : Historical Society of Alberta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book History Now written by Historical Society of Alberta and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Desmond Morton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771060025
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Canada written by Desmond Morton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition of the Canadian classic. Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this expanded, seventh edition of A Short History of Canada, readers need look no further. Desmond Morton, one of Canada's most highly respected historians, is keenly aware of the ways in which our past informs the present, and in one compact and engrossing volume, he pulls off the remarkable feat of bringing it all together -- from the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans, to Confederation, to Stephen Harper's prime ministership, to Justin Trudeau's victory in the 2015 election. His acute observations on the Diefenbaker era, the effects of the post-war influx of immigrants, the Trudeau years and the constitutional crisis, the Quebec referendum, the rise of the Canadian Alliance, and Canada under Harper's governance, all provide an invaluable background to understanding the way Canada works today and its direction in years to come.
Author : Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9781552381946
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Alberta Formed - Alberta Transformed written by Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed is a two-volume set spanning a remarkable 12,000 years of history and showcasing the work of 34 of Alberta's most respected scholars. Volume 1 sets the stage from human beginnings in Alberta to the eve of Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, while Volume 2 takes readers through the twentieth century and up to the 2005 centennial.
Author : John Blue
Publisher : Chicago : Pioneer Historical Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Alberta, Past and Present written by John Blue and published by Chicago : Pioneer Historical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1924 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Kaler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442663367
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Baby Trouble in the Last Best West written by Amy Kaler and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Kaler utilizes censuses, newspaper reports, social work case files, and personal letters to illuminate the ordeals that women, men, and babies were subjected to as Albertans debated childbearing. Through the lens of reproduction, Kaler offers a vivid and engaging analysis of how colonialism, racism, nationalism, medicalization, and evolving gender politics contributed to Alberta’s imaginative economy of reproduction. Kaler investigates five different episodes of "baby trouble": the emergence of obstetrics as a political issue, the drive for eugenic sterilization, unmarried childbearing and "rescue homes" for unmarried mothers, state-sponsored allowances for single mothers, and high infant mortality. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West will transport the reader to the turmoil of Alberta’s early years while examining the complexity of settler society-building and gender struggles.
Author : Graham MacDonald
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1897425376
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book The Beaver Hills Country written by Graham MacDonald and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Indians, Metis, and European immigrants.
Author : John Acorn
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888644817
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Deep Alberta written by John Acorn and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.
