Download or read book Brownlee and the Triumph of Populism written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Game Plan written by Karen L. Wall and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta's organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of individuals as well as of communities of indigenous people, settlers, and immigrants. Read new perspectives on well-known sports stories along with tales of lesser-known games that remained on the margins of most histories for reasons of race, class, and gender. Whether a spectator, supporter, scholar, or fan, readers will be informed and delighted by the research contained in this sport history.
Download or read book Forging Alberta s Constitutional Framework written by Richard Connors and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and responsibilities within Alberta and Canada. Contributors from across Canada include historians, lawyers, political scientists, and politicians writing on themes that illustrate how Alberta's constitution is the product of decades, even centuries, of contest, debate, division, and negotiation.
Download or read book The Grads Are Playing Tonight written by M. Ann Hall and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women's basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than 125,000 miles in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and they crossed the Atlantic three times to defend their world title at exhibition games held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Meticulously researched and documented-including capsule biographies of all 38 women who played for the Grads over the years and over 100 photos-the story of the Edmonton Grads will enthrall fans of sport history and women in sport. [CTV interview: http://tinyurl.com/6pxg5aq]
Download or read book Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the optimism associated with provincial status in 1905, through the trials of Depression and war, the boom times of the post-war period, and the economic vagaries of the 1980s and the 1990s, the twentieth century was a time of growth and hardship, development and change, for Alberta and its people. And during the century, twelve men, from a variety of political parties and from very different backgrounds, led the government of this province. The names of some--like William Aberhart, Ernest Manning, and Peter Lougheed--are still household names, while others--like Arthur Sifton, Herbert Greenfield and Richard Reid--have been all but forgotten. Yet each in his unique way, for better or for worse, helped to mould and steer the destiny of the province he governed. These are their stories.
Download or read book Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up written by Geo Takach and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited tour of Wild Rose Country reveals the real soul beneath some tired stereotypes.
Download or read book Whisky Wars of the Canadian West written by Rich Mole and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1874, the newly formed North West Mounted Police marched west to shut down unscrupulous liquor traders who had devastated the lives of many First Nations people. The Mounties' famous trek heralded over 50 years of "whisky wars" in the Canadian West. Author Rich Mole traces the turbulent history of alcohol, temperance movements and prohibition between 1870 and the 1920s through the stories of those who suffered and profited from the West's insatiable thirst for liquor. Before prohibition, young James Gray was one of many Winnipeg children who endured poverty and humiliation due to an alcoholic father. Calgary newspaperman Bob Edwards, known for his witty aphorisms, publicly supported prohibition while waging his own battle with the bottle. Harry Bronfman, "King of the Boozoriums," built a business empire shipping mail-order liquor on both sides of the Canada-US border. Rum-runner "Emperor" Emilio Picariello and his housekeeper, Florence Lassandro, faced the gallows after an Alberta police constable was shot and killed in front of his own children. Mole's vivid, real-life stories chronicle a tumultuous and fascinating era.
Download or read book Edmonton s Urban Villages written by Ron Kuban and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a collection of neighbourhood volunteer organizations come to influence the development of a major Canadian city? Few other North American cities have embraced the community league movement with the vigour of Edmonton. For 87 years, tens of thousands of volunteers from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) have often acted as a counterweight to large private and institutional interests, shaping municipal development by providing a voice and a training ground for grassroots civic participation. In its wake, the EFCL has left a host of sports, cultural, and civic initiatives for the improvement of Edmonton, and an important lesson on how to create community.
Download or read book The Sixties Revolution the Fall of Social Credit written by Virginia Byfield and published by History Book Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Funding the Modern American State 1941 1995 written by W. Elliot Brownlee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941.
Download or read book High on a Windy Hill written by Ray Djuff and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1927, sitting atop a knoll overlooking Upper Waterton Lake, the Prince of Wales Hotel has survived floods, fire, gales and even closure. Built for the Minnesota-based Great Northern Railway, the hotel initially provided an oasis for thirsty Americans during Prohibition. Now a national historic site, the lodge receives its rightful tribute in this extensively annotated book. Discover why a US railway would build a hotel in Canada 50 miles from its closest line. Read the nearly impossible saga of the construction site. Uncover the stories of the dedicated people who have worked to preserve and run this classic venue. Ray Djuff, a former employee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, spent 20 years researching this book, uncovering facts and details long considered lost. Vivid historical photographs bring to life the story of this grand survivor of the golden age of railway resort development.
Download or read book The Great West Before 1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first volume of a sweeping twelve-volume journalistic history of Alberta in the 20th century provides the historical context for the creation of the province in 1905. The book covers the history of the Plains people, Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade, American Civil War, Canadian Confederation, building of the Canadian Pacific, Riel Rebellion, and the long struggle of the North West Territories to achieve provincehood. The format is magazine-like, filled with hundreds of fascinating historical photographs, stories, maps, illustrations, and sidebars that complement the narrative."--
Download or read book History Now written by Historical Society of Alberta and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of the Province written by Ted Byfield and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of this engrossing 11-volume journalistic history, Alberta in the 20th Century, covers the critical decade of provincehood (in 1905) and growth on a scale not again equalled until the 1970s. Among the momentous events of the decade were the long and often bitter debate in the Commons over the Alberta Act, the massive influx of settlers onto the Alberta prairies, the transformation of Calgary and Edmonton from towns into cities, and the fight between them over the location of the capital and the university, a conflict that would rend the province well into the future. The engrossing story is illustrated with 435 photographs, paintings, maps, old advertisements, and copies of letters written by participants in the events. 9.25x12.25". Published by United Western Communications Ltd., 17327-106 A Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5S 1M7. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Democracy in Decline written by Larry Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is Democracy in Decline? is a short book that takes up the fascinating question on whether this once-revolutionary form of government--the bedrock of Western liberalism--is fast disappearing. Has the growth of corporate capitalism, mass economic inequality, and endemic corruption reversed the spread of democracy worldwide? In this incisive collection, leading thinkers address this disturbing and critically important issue. Published as part of the National Endowment for Democracy's 25th anniversary--and drawn from articles forthcoming in the Journal of Democracy--this collection includes seven essays from a stellar group of democracy scholars: Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Thomas Carothers, Marc Plattner, Larry Diamond, Philippe Schmitter, Steven Levitsky, Ivan Krastev, and Lucan Way. Written in a thought-provoking style from seven different perspectives, this book provides an eye-opening look at how the very foundation of Western political culture may be imperiled"--
Download or read book Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood written by Michael Emerson and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches democratization of the European neighbourhood from two sides, first exploring developments in the states themselves and then examining what the European Union has been doing to promote the process.
