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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada River of Tears
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada More Ah Mo Indian Legends from the Northwest
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Love Quest
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Bird of Paradox The Unpublished Writings of
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada River Lost A
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Totem Tales Legends of the Rainforest Legends
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Captain McNeill and His Wife the Nishga Chief
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Buffalo People Portrait of a Vanishing Nation
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Potlatch People Indian Lives and Legends of
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Spirit of Powwow
Book SynopsisSpirit of Powwow has evolved as we have talked with dancers and drummers until we feel we now have a powwow book that goes beyond the usual mere description of regalia and dances. The photography and text cover every component of the powwow, not just the dance competition. The Nahanee family and their friends make this book a very personal experience for the reader as we have maintained the true voices of the dancers, drummers, officials and volunteers throughout as they speak of their experiences and beliefs. You will follow a powwow family and their friends into the dance arbor, learn of their experiences and meet the behind the scenes people who hold the event together. You will see how the powerful circle of elders and youth closes by visiting Chan Es7a7wats (Yes, I Can Do It). You will meet young dancers learning how to dance and how to make their very first regalia as they are being taught about their culture by Gloria. We have tried to create a book that will become a bridge bet
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Hancock House Tlingit Their Art and Culture
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Hancock House Northwest Native Arts Creative Colors 2 Creative
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Spirit of Powwow
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Alaska in the Wake of the North Star
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Indian Tribes of the Northwest
Book SynopsisA guide to the Indian Tribes of the Northwest. The diverse and colorful Indian nations of the Northwest Coast of North America are described in this informative little book that highlights the rich tapestries of Native cultural beliefs and traditions.
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Hancock House Coast Salish Their Art and Culture
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Haida
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Mattie Wyatt Earps Secret Second Wife
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada WeGyet Wanders on Legends of the Northwest
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University of Alberta Press Forging Albertas Constitutional Framework
Book SynopsisExplores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining many cases and themes that have shaped legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and responsibilities within Alberta and Canada. This book contains themes that illustrate how Alberta's constitution is the product of decades of contest, debate, and division.Trade Review"Yet there's plenty here to stimulate and entertain. If you're looking for a fireside read in the gathering days of winter and you've decided on substance, this could be the ticket. Among the most intriguing of the 16 chapters is Richard Connors's opening look at where law sprang from in the Canadian colonies. Entire books have been written on colonial legal theory and Connors provides a nice summary." Mark Lisac, The Edmonton Journal, December 11, 2005 "...at its heart, this volume provides a historically informed exploration of Alberta's constitutional history, rooted in the notion that the province, its peoples, and the manner in which they viewed the law and the constitution were products of a historical process of moving through time together as Albertans. These notions and perspectives were not happenstance, and recognizing this historical dynamic and the manner in which it necessarily informs the way that Albertans will continue to view these issues is a critically important insight that raises our understanding of a province that has occupied such a prominent role in the nation's affairs." Jonathan Swainger, University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2008
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University of Alberta Press One Step Over the Line
Book SynopsisEclectic, transnational essays on women's settler history, colonial and borderlands studies of the Canada-US Wests.Trade Review"...do not approach this book with trepidation. It is not pedantic in the least. In fact, it's a gem... All 16 [essays] are clear, well-written and appealing pieces in which the eternally rehashed and reheated Famous Five rate nary a mention. Instead, we meet little-known women whose stories, centred on the theme of border crossing, whether geographic or spiritual, are fascinating...Never revisionist, always fresh and insightful, One Step Over the Line speaks as much to women's lives today as it does to those of the past." Naomi Lakritz, Calgary Herald, August 10, 2008 "In taking up the challenges of comparative and transnational history, Jameson, McManus, and the sixteen contributors have produced a collection remarkable for its synthesis, iconoclasm, and insight. To the credit of both the editors and contributors, One Step Over the Line is a tightly integrated ensemble. The editors have arranged the articles into seven thematic sections designed to induce comparison..Editors Jameson and McManus also establish compelling connections between the articles. Their introduction and the synopses opening each section set the historical context, outline central themes, and emphasize important arguments and historiographical issues. These commentaries and the thoughtful sequencing of articles generate a high level of intertextuality... The articles in One Step Over the Line hold the potential to recast our understanding of major events and social phenomena in important ways..That a volume so intently focused on reconstituting women's lives concludes with two chapters exploring the connection of women's experiences to broader historical themes highlights the thoughtful editorial choices made in structuring the collection..The iconoclasm that typifies One Step Over the Line owes much to the authors' devotion to questioning received themes, categories, and professional practices..One Step Over the Line is an important and meaningful addition to the histories of the American and Canadian Wests, and it would serve well as a college or university course reader..the collection's superb contextualization of events, along with its persuasive challenges to the ideas, themes, and categories prominent in Western history, make it a potentially thought-provoking classroom tool and worthwhile reading for any student of Western history." Chris Clarkson, BC Studies, Spring 2009" "This collection of articles is one of two anthologies that have emerged from a conference held at the University of Calgary in June 2002 entitled "Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History." The intent of this collection was to begin a dialogue about the lives of women in both the Canadian and American Wests that would hopefully lead to a comparative analysis of the lives and activities of the women who lived and worked there. The articles are by well-established Canadian and American feminist historians such as Sylvia Van Kirk and Joan Jensen, but also by lesser known women who are studying the lives of western women. The various authors cannot be said to be doing comparative history, but there is an effort underway here to attempt to answer some important questions about western women in both the United States and Canada and to contrast their lives at a particular time in the history of the two countries. For example, should we assume that a woman who settled in the American West experienced similar circumstances as a woman who immigrated to the Canadian West? In fact, we need to ask how the differing national policies that governed Native peoples defined women's lives, and how property ownership and so on impacted the lives of women in the two countries. These questions need to be answered, but at the same time it must be kept in mind that the American West was largely settled before the British began moving west in the northern part of the continent. The book is divided into six sections and covers such diverse topics as prostitution and union issues. As well, the role that women such as Edith Lucas played in the development of public education in British Columbia in the early 20th century is outlined. This is a wonderful and enlightening collection that includes numerous pictures, and the articles will fill in many gaps in our knowledge about Canadian women's history and provide a beginning to a comparison of western American and Canadian women's lives." - Margaret Kechnie, Laurentian University "[The] contributors to One Step over the Line come from Canada, the United States, and Britain and cross academic generational lines. Even in more than four hundred pages, One Step over the Line cannot discuss all of the topics and issues relevant to the experiences of women in the Canadian and American Wests. But the very presence of such a book will be welcomed by those who regularly teach classes on the West, especially in the field of women's history... This anthology is an attempt to stimulate further scholarship that uses comparative and transnational frameworks. To elicit conversation and research toward this end, the editors have paired the essays (one by an American author, the other by a Canadian or British author) in seven sections...This anthology is one you will want to get your hands on for the ideas and possibilities for teaching women's western history across borders offered in section 7...Thanks to Jameson and McManus for initiating the conversation in this fine collection." Sandra Schackel, The Journal of American History, Vol. 96, Issue 3 [full review at http://tinyurl.com/ygfkosz] "...these sixteen articles guide the reader to a deeper understanding of the complexity of gender relations along the 49th parallel and suggest new women's history methodologies. In the final section, Mary Murphy's and Margaret Walsh's reflections on teaching provide excellent introductions to the histories and historiographies of the region... Students and the general public will find much to appreciate among the individual articles in this collection. Taken as a whole, though, the volume is most useful as a call to arms for scholars to embrace a wide range of research methods to pursue a fuller understanding of the complexities of gender, race, and nationhood in the U.S.-Canada borderlands." Cynthia Culver Prescott, Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2010 "This ambitious collection seeks to redress dominant histories of the US and Canadian Wests where considerations of gender and cross-border similarities and distinctions are concerned... Many essays engage with race as well as gender in a crucial recognition that the experiences of white women in the West have not spoken for all Western women. Other subjects tackled include sexuality and sex work, education (both as an object of history and through a discussion of cross-border pedagogy), class and union politics... On the whole, however, these first steps across the lines of nation-state and gendered borders successfully argue for a dislodging of the primacy of male-centred approaches to the histories of both Canadian and American Wests. Perhaps most effectively, several essays foreground the methodological challenges of focussing on the histories of women in the North American Wests, exhibiting a self-reflexivity and a desire to proceed as ethically as possible in this emerging field of women's cross-border history." Gillian Roberts, The Journal of American Studies, Volume 44, 2010 "The major preoccupations of this impressive collection of women historians can be summarized as follows: How did separate national policies governing Native peoples, property ownership, immigration, and citizenship affect women? How do women's individual histories (accounts of daily life) connect to the histories of the nation-state? Jameson and McManus propose here a comparative framework that seeks to uncover the lesser-known stories of women homesteaders, church workers, and prostitutes, to name but a few, in order to sketch out a better understanding of transborder realities. While it may be true that women's histories have always unsettled the past, the scholars in this volume rightly point out that they are in unfamiliar territory, because women in the West have largely been studied within the national paradigm." Katherine Ann Roberts, American Review of Canadian Studies, March 2010 "Ever since western women's history emerged as a distinct field of study in the 1980s, collaborative efforts have produced some of the best and most innovative works in the discipline. One Step Over the Line continues this fine tradition..With essays from a wide array of scholars, the volume's exploration of the role of nation as framework broadens and enriches knowledge of women's lives on both sides of the line, connects parallel histories, and challenges assumptions about the role of the nation in the construction of each country's history. Divided into seven sections, the book moves from theory, to analysis, to teaching advice...One Step Over the Line is an excellent book. It continues the work of multiethnic, cross-class explorations of women's experiences within an innovative framework." Renee M. Laegried, Great Plains Quarterly, Fall 2009 "Comparative history is an especially fruitful field since people in different nations develop in unique ways because of their pasts and the ways that they structure their institutions. Also, they respond differently to such processes as settlement of the land, colonization of Native or First peoples, and the establishment of agencies of law and order...This is a vitally important contribution to the history of western women. All who teach and research in this field will profit from the work the individual scholars have done, and the wonderful unity of purpose that the editors have imposed on the book as a whole. In addition the individual essays are beautifully penned narratives that tell individual and family stories that are often moving. They will linger in the readers' memory long after they have finished the final page of the book. Few history volumes have that impact." Shirley A. Leckie, New Mexico Historical Review, Winter 2010 "This excellent collection of 16 articles, 8 by women scholars from the US, 7 from Canada, and 1 from the UK, achieves its goal of communicating the international border, using North American western women's history as its common subject..The authors show how early alliances between Native women and white fur traders produced a Metis society that lost its place to the British determination to create a white society by importing white women and families as settlers. US border crossings attracted different groups of women: prostitutes looking for places on the sidelines of Canada's extractive industries; African Americans, who, despite discrimination, avoided segregation and lynchings; and the American Woman's Club of Calgary, whose members saw themselves as superior sojourners even though many stayed in Calgary their whole lives. Individual women's stories include that of the educator, an Irish immigrant to British Columbia herself, who developed correspondence courses for interned Japanese people, prison inmates, Yukon settlers, and new arrivals." P.W. Kaufman, Choice Magazine, June 2009 "The essays in One Step Over the Line step over ... national and gendered lines in a number of ways, and the result is a valuable and interesting contribution to Western cultural studies... [A]s a whole the collection provides significant contextualizing material to literary scholars and suggests many avenues for further research... Overall, this collection contributes usefully to ongoing conversations about the tenor of the North American Wests, reminding readers that national borders can be crossed, but also do make a difference." Alison Calder, Canadian Literature 206, Autumn 2010Table of ContentsConnecting the Women's Wests; Unsettled Pasts, Unsettling Borders; Making Connections; A Transborder Family in the Pacific North West; Writing Women into the History of the North American Wests, One Woman at a Time; "That Understanding with Nature"; The Perils of Rural Women's History; The Great White Mother; Pushing Physical, Racial & Ethnic Boundaries; "Crossing the Line"; "Talented & Charming Strangers From Across the Line"; Excerpts From Pourin' Down Rain; "A Union Without Women is Only Half Organised"; Jailed Heroes & Kitchen Heroines; Genderered Steps Across the Border; Latitudes & Longitudes; Index.
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University of Alberta Press Babas Kitchen Medicines
Book SynopsisAn incomparable compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, plasters, and tonics will fascinate and often mortify.Trade Review"Early Ukrainian settlers didn't have the luxury of running to the doctor for every cut or sniffle. Instead, they looked in their gardens for their own medicinal remedies to cure infection, fevers and hangovers. Those kitchen remedies from early Ukrainian pioneers are captured in University of Alberta professor Michael Mucz's new book, Baba's Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada. Many of the home remedies are from the late 1800s to early 1900s when modern medicine was still in its infancy and pioneers had little money and almost no access to doctors. Puffball spores kept in a bag year round were used as a simple antibiotic. More serious infections would be treated with fresh cow manure. Both puffballs and cow manure contain natural antibiotics. Simple garden plants and weeds were an important part of the home remedies, said Mucz, who included several interview transcripts in the book to give a sense of the illness and remedies... Eighty-five percent of the world's population still uses home remedies. Mucz said the early pioneers knew that the body has a tremendous healing capacity." Mary MacArthur, The Western Producer, March 23, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/GVeKDV] -- Mary MacArthur * The Western Producer *"When he set out to research and document uses of plants by early Ukrainian settlers in western Canada, Michael Mucz had no idea just how much his project would blossom and bear fruit. But Mucz's resulting book-20 years in the making-is a lovingly detailed chronicle that wraps science, Ukrainian culture and western Canadian history into one quirky package and flexes the boundaries of traditional scientific research.... Mucz's newly released Baba's Kitchen Medicines is a testament to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of western Canada's Ukrainian settlers, who used what was at hand to deal with just about every ailment, including frostbite, diaper rash, anxiety, kidney stones and infected limbs.... A hybrid mix of botany, history and anthropology, Mucz's research is as much a story about hardship and endurance as it is a scientific record..." Bev Betkowski, University of Alberta News, April 10, 2012# 1 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on April 15, 2012"[Michael Mucz's] research, which began in 1992, was conducted by speaking to more than 200 children of Ukrainian settlers. It unearthed the practical use of plants and household items as the cure to everyday ailments. The result was Baba's Kitchen Medicines ... equal parts history, anthropology and botany.... The settler population may not have known medically why the remedies worked, but they knew there was value in the traditions passed down to them.... The average age of the people Mucz interviewed was 81. Today, few of them are living to see the completed work. Readers have said to him the book let them reconnect with their families' pasts." Shaamini Yogaretnam, Edmonton Journal, April 30, 2012, [Full article at http://bit.ly/IEbvqr]# 3 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on April 29, 2012Edmonton Journal, #5 in the Edmonton Non-Fiction bestsellers"Using a tape recorder and a notebook, Mucz personally conducted 200 interviews in Alberta's east-central communities, visiting seniors in their own homes as well as in lodges of nursing homes. He painstakingly gathered one-on-one remembrances of healing remedies and treatments used on isolated homesteads and farms." Bev Betkowski, Folio# 5 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of May 20, 2012"History is full of examples of civilization passing traditions down from generation to generation, and for one Camrose man that tradition was a calling that he pursued for more than 20 years.... [Michael Mucz ] is the author of Baba's Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada, a book that is receiving high accolades for its exploration of home remedies in the Ukrainian culture.... The book was published earlier this month and is very practical in nature. Mucz wanted it to bring back memories as people read it.'I didn't want it to be a cerebral thing,' he said. 'I wanted it to be a heart thing.' And since his book was published at the start of April, the feedback he is receiving has convinced Mucz that he has achieved that goal." Mark Crown, Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser, April 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/JAb5T1]#2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestseller list, May 27, 2012.# 5 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June 02, 2012# 3 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June 10, 2012# 7 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June 17, 2012.#6 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June 24, 2012."An unusual gem, this scholarly volume is one of the few works in English on traditional healing practices of Ukrainian immigrants.... Detailed information on wild and cultivated plants used in healing includes their preparation and administration. A section on common ailments lists traditional treatments used for each. Squeamish readers should be warned that remedies include the use of cow manure, leeches, dog saliva, and other unsavory substances.... This work can also serve as a model of ethnomedical research methodology. Appendixes contain interview forms, a glossary of botanical terms, and transliterations from Ukrainian to English. For libraries supporting research in ethnobotany, pharmacy, North American history, or Slavic studies. Recommended." J. S. Whelan, Harvard Medical School, Choice Magazine, September 2012"Mucz, thankfully, begins his book with a strongly worded disclaimer. This is not a medical or herbalist text by any stretch; he aims to document the lives of those early settlers. The book focuses on medical treatments, but the milieu in which they were practised looms large.... The list of treatments is varied and fascinating; one imagines the babas springing into action to sooth aching muscles, to calm a cough with honey or to deliver babies. The liberal use of homebrewed alcohol, pickle juice and garlic evoke powerful scents." Mari Sasano, Alberta Views, September 2012# 7 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Non-fiction) for the week of June 28, 2013.“With his focus on the early period of Ukrainian settlement in western Canada, ethnobotanist Michael Mucz points to an understudied aspect of pioneering and tackles his data with all the tools at his command.… Mucz and his Baba’s Kitchen Medicines make an important contribution to this bank of knowledge. In the meantime I recommend that you take the time to scan the index, pick your favourite ailment, and check out the remedy. You may be surprised!” -- Robert B. Klymasz * Journal of Ukrainian Studies 37 *"From Olena Boriak’s listing of ethnographic research proposals...we learn that Ukrainian folk medicine took root as a field of serious investigation in the second half of the nineteenth century.... Mucz and his Baba’s Kitchen Medicines make an important contribution to this bank of knowledge.... I recommend that you take the time to scan the index, pick your favourite ailment, and check out the remedy. You may be surprised!" -- Robert B.Klymasz * Journal of Canadian Studies 37 *Table of ContentsIntroduction - America's First Nations; Discovery, Exploration and Colonisation; Revolution and Independence; The Young Republic; Jefferson and the Democratic Republic; The Age of Jackson; The West (Pre-Civil War); Sectional Conflict; Civil War and Reconstruction; The West (Post-Civil War); The Gilded Age and Imperial America; Populism, Progressivism and the Great War; Boom, Bust and the New Deal; World War II and the Origins of the Cold War; Post-war America: The Fifties and Sixties; Retrenchment: The Seventies and Eighties; Post-Cold War America: Cold War Ends, War on Terror Begins; Index.
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University of Alberta Press Countering Displacements
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples, thereby emphasizing capacity and resilience. Throughout their chapters, they show how cultural activities-from public performance to filmmaking to community arts-recur as significant ways in which people counter the powers of displacement. This book is an indispensable resource for displaced peoples everywhere and the policy makers, social scientists, and others who work in concert with them. Contributors: Catherine Graham, Subhasri Ghosh, Jon Gordon, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Agnes Kramer-Hamstra, Mazen Masri, Jean McDonald, and Pavithra Narayanan.Trade Review"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies and indigenous studies to create new conversations.. It is a book that offers diverse and challenging reflections on a wide range of questions around dispossession, migration, and the resilience to remake lives. Everyone working on postcolonial studies will find something of interest here." Pamela McCallum, Chimo"In Countering Displacements, eight brilliant essays focus on histories of displacement across the world, shedding light on the reality of people's everyday lives when fighting for the right to move or to stay.. This is a book like no other: where refugees' ongoing confrontation with authority, land exploitation, Indigenous self-determination and questions of citizenship are re-created in relation to one another, forming ways to creatively and collectively redefine statehood, nationality and legality." Ro Velasquez Guzman, Shameless, Spring 2013"In addition to its unique assemblage of refugee and Indigenous voices, the most exciting aspect of this book is its envisioning of resistance through creativity. Authors include forms of resistance and affirmation ranging from creative works to policy-making to outright protest.... These eight divergent essays together comprise a collection that is genuinely evocative and courageous. In concluding, I will leave you with an inspirational statement, alluded to in my title, from Hajdukowski-Ahmed's writing. She says, 'creativity is an alchemy that can transform pain into art, testimony, and hope.' One after another, the chapters in Countering Displacements work to describe this alchemy, and to attest to the strength of those who practice it within their political and cultural struggles." Aubrey Hanson, The Goose 2013 Double Issue [Full review at http://bit.ly/HVycI3]"This collection provides a thoughtful response to a rising global issue. Throughout the collection there is an underlying presence of human rights rhetoric and although not explicitly stated, it is worth noting that the trend toward moving human rights out of juridical and legal frameworks to humanities based research is helpful in developing creative solutions to problems of displacement." Alexander Hartwiger, Transnational Literature, November 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/1dbxOn6]"...thoughtful and strongly humanitarian collection, highly recommended especially for college library anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies collections." * Reviewer's Choice *
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University of Alberta Press The Grads Are Playing Tonight
Book SynopsisA sports-history gem! The Edmonton Grads dominated women's basketball from 1915-1940 across Canada and worldwide.Trade Review# 1 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on January 08, 2012".the team which holds the most victories in the history of North American sport. The Edmonton Grads were a women's basketball team that held North America's attention for 25 years as the team challenged preconceptions about gender and sport. Samantha Powers, VUE Weekly, January 19-25, 2012"Over the years, the feats of the amazing Grads faded from memory. Few remember a team once heralded for many years as world champions.... The wonderful new book by Ms. Hall, emeritus professor at the University of Alberta, provides an informative and richly detailed account of the women who were sports pioneers. It is authoritative and deserving of a wide readership." Tom Hawthorn, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/Aj34Al]"Three years before they were given the right to vote in Canada, a team of female basketball players in Edmonton started a 25-year journey of world-wide fame and victory, proving that women certainly had the mental and physical capacity to do more than stay prim and proper." Rebecca Medel, The Gateway, January 18, 2012 [Full article at http://thegatewayonline.ca/article/view/grads_basketball]# 2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on February 05, 2012# 2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on February 26, 2012"When a team wins 95% of its games, it earns a certain place in sports history. "The Grads are Playing Tonight! The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club" discusses the domination by the Edmonton Grads for a quarter century under the guidance of J. Percy Page. Not only winning championships, they traveled the world to continue their domination. "The Grads are Playing Tonight!" is a strongly recommended pick..." Wisconsin Bookwatch, February 2012Hall's fine book brings the Grads to life - fierce competitors who played with joyful élan. The book is also a compelling portrait of the rough-and-tumble prairie city whose civic pride was awakened by the Grads' exploits. Bruce Ward, Ottawa Citizen, February 19, 2012# 6 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on April 23, 2012"Almost like a fairytale, this hard-to-believe story about an almost-invincible female basketball team and their committed coach, J. Percy Page (later Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta), comes alive in the pages of The Grads are Playing Tonight! Well-written and engaging throughout its ten chapters, the book focuses on not only the adventurous tales of the Grads, but also of Edmonton coming into its own as an important city in Western Canada. In this feel-good book there is something for everyone--sports fans, history buffs, feminists, educators, scholars, politicians, and readers who dare to dream the impossible. A story within many stories, The Grads are Playing Tonight! reaffirms a city is more than a place on the map--it is the people who live there and make it home. The Grads are Playing Tonight! will continue to play itself out in readers' heads long after they shut its covers." Jury comments, Trade Non-Fiction Book Award, BPAA.#7 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June 24, 2012."Imagine that a Canadian sports team won ninety-six per cent of all the games it ever played - over the course of twenty-five years; that it sawed through its competition, going undefeated as it captured four consecutive Olympic championships; that it was named the best to ever play its sport, by the sport's inventor, no less. Wouldn't that team be an icon in Canada? Well, there is such a squad, but, unfortunately, the team is virtually unknown outside its native Alberta. I'm talking about the Edmonton Grads - a women's basketball team that dominated the sport between 1915 and 1940. Fortunately, M. Ann Hall has set out to cure our collective national amnesia with her new book, The Grads are Playing Tonight!... Hopefully, Hall's book will help spread the story across Canada." Mark Reid, Canada's History Magazine, June-July 2012"Reading "The Grads Are Playing Tonight!" was a nostalgic experience for me.... M. Ann Hall's book is exactly how I remember the Grads: full of grit, enthusiastic about life, inspiring and proud. And they should be. The Grads were not simply amazing basketball players. They were transformative women of their time... They played in front of the largest sporting crowds of their time. Hall is a sportswriter, so her writing style is compelling, and she provides plenty of details on the team." Tracey Peter, Herizons, Fall 2012[The Grads Are Playing Tonight!] is the first comprehensive book about the club. In an extensively researched, accessible, yet detailed read, Hall reveals new insights into the team, the organization, the coach (J. Percy Page), and the lives of the players.... Hall also effectively places the story of the Grads organization within the history of basketball in North America and Europe, discussing the debates over gender-based rules, social and medical opinion during the 1920s and 1930s about the appropriate uses of women's bodies, and the international stage of women's sport during this period... The Grads Are Playing Tonight! is an important and long-awaited contribution to women's sport history scholarship." Carly Adams, Great Plains Quarterly, Fall 2012"Ann Hall's latest contribution to the cannon of sports history is a well-written all encompassing examination of the legacy of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates basketball team. The Edmonton Commercial Graduates team (the "Grads") maintains the most outstanding winning record in the history of basketball.... Hall's thoughtful examination is extensive in scope, eloquently bringing together primary and secondary resources to provide a masterful collection of statistics, oral histories, photographs, commentaries, and newspaper accounts. Her account is the first book to provide an in-depth examination of the importance of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates basketball team across several domains of study: sports history, the sport of basketball, women's sport history and sport organization/administration.... This book would be a welcome addition to both the avid sport history scholar and the general population. Hall's writing, explorations, and explanations are highly accessible across disciplines and to those wishing to simply learn more about this outstanding basketball team." Christiane Job, Sport History Review 2012"As might be expected from the pioneering author M. Ann Hall, this is an important book that will provide the template for the collective biography of many sports teams across a variety of codes.... The seminal achievement of this book is to give the individual Grads faces and voices. Although often based on secondary, family sources, we begin to see where sport fitted into their lives as young women. Just as importantly, we find out what happened to many of them once they ceased to play.... [T]he use of official photographs and snapshots; game programmes; player memorabilia and other artefacts as integral to the history of the team is what lifts this book above so many.... The Grads Are Playing Tonight! is an inspiring challenge to those of us who want to understand both elite sport and its broader participatory culture." Jean Williams, Sport in History, November 2013Table of ContentsForeword; The Huis and Where They Came From; The Formation of the Hui Zu; The Fate of the Hui During and After the Qing Dynasty; Further Assimilation of Minorities and its effects of Muslims; How the Hui Zu Lives in China; Influential Muslim Personalities; Admiral Zheng He and His Achievements; Contributions of the Chinese Muslims; The Staunchness of the Chinese Muslims.
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University of Alberta Press Aboriginal Populations
Book SynopsisExtended and comparative social demography of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and beyond by world-renowned experts.Trade Review"Aboriginal Populations examines the striking demographics of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Its scope is encyclopedic and compelling; its findings are often surprising; its commentaries are eloquent. Editors Frank Trovato and Anatole Romaniuk capture a community in transition after centuries of despair..." [Full review at http://bit.ly/1viEFAl] -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *“… [The editors] have brought forward a collection of papers of very high quality, many of which engage the reader in terms of some of the most difficult conceptual and methodological issues to characterize research of this nature. “ -- Don Kerr * The International Indigenous Policy Journal *
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University of Alberta Press Disinherited Generations
Book SynopsisTwo Cree women fought injustices regarding the rights of Indigenous women and children in Canada.Trade Review"...a unique and unforgettable look into the lives of two determined Aboriginal women, whose extraordinary efforts and unwavering determination helped to set new precedents and changed the way that Canada's Indian Act perceived and treated First Nations women.... This oral autobiography, which is highlighted by detailed notes, photographs and personal stories of tumultuous times and triumphant achievements, is a must read for every student of Native Studies and those interested in learning more about the quest for dignity, human rights, gains made through various types of peaceful activism, and Aboriginal history in Canada as a whole." John Copley, Alberta Native News, March 2013"Knowing about these two women's stories (as well as those of important people like Jenny Shirt Margetts and Mary Two-Axe Earley among numerous others) is one of the missing pieces of a complex puzzle about contemporary Canadian history and the treatment of a large group of our country's citizens." Scott Hayes, St. Albert Gazette, April 10, 2013"Disinherited Generations is an oral history of Carlson and Steinhauer's struggles to fix the inherent sexism of the Indian Act. The story picks up at the founding of their activist group Indian Rights for Indian Women and carries on through years of advocacy and legal set-backs all the way to 1985, when section 12(1)(b) was finally repealed to adhere to the recently passed Charter of Rights and Freedoms." Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal, February 15, 2013#5 on the Edmonton Journal's Non-fiction Bestsellers list for the week of May 3, 2013"In this oral autobiography told to a Canadian writer, Carlson and Steinhauer (d. 2012), Saddle Creek Cree cousins, relate the story of their activism against discrimination by the federal government in the Indian Act and resistance in their own community." Book News Inc., 2013"This book is a testament to the strength of these women who persevered, despite threats that they and their families would be shot if they tried coming back to their reserves. In the face of ridicule, insufficient funds, legal loopholes and interminable delays, why did they continue? Valuable context behind the women's motivation comes in pages devoted to their memories.... Steinhauer succumbed to cancer last year, but her written story, with Carlson's, survives to influence a new generation..." Dianne Meili, Alberta Views, September 2013"...a highly readable set of conversations between the two Cree elders, transcribed and lovingly edited by the third author into eight chapters that address key 20th-century issues for Aboriginal women in Canada.... Discussion on the 'Indian Act,' treaty rights, and gender inequality is no academic exercise, but 'a personal matter, a family inheritance' that powerfully illustrates their effects on Aboriginal women and their children. The authors personalize the political and historical, and politicize their personal histories.... The strengths here are continuously revealed like so many repeated offerings of oral teachings of indigenous elders. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." G. Bruyere, Choice Magazine, September 2013"An engaging and inspirational book, Disinherited Generations will have an audience among students, researchers and other people wanting to know more about treaty and Aboriginal rights, activism, the First Nations women's movement and the Indian Act.... Writing about gender discrimination in the Indian Act tends to focus on legislation and court cases, which can inadvertently silence the impact of the law on the lived lives of First Nations people.... What is clear is that not only was the violence of the Indian Act meted out on individuals, it was targeted at families and had a deep impact on cultural and collective levels. It is clear that the book was produced in a spirit of history telling that emphasizes sharing, generating research and strengthening Indigenous nations." Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Histoire Sociale/Social History, November 2013“As a direct result of Carlson and Steinhauer’s work, the number of ‘registered Indians’ in Canada more than doubled, from about 360,000 in 1985 to 824,341 in 2010—radically impacting the face of Aboriginal/State relations in Canada, and with it the face of what ‘reconciliation’ looks like today in Canada…. Indigenizing these archives—inviting researchers to the kitchen table to share Aboriginal history—Carlson, Goyette and Steinhauer offer a uniquely Cree and Métis space for scholars to build research and structure argument.” -- David Gaertner * Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsForeword xi A Tribute to Kathleen Steinhauer and Nellie Carlson MARIA CAMPBELL Acknowledgements xix Introduction xxi Two Strong Women Begin to Tell a Story LINDA GOYETTE 1 Daughters of Saddle Lake 1 2 Surviving Residential School 15 3 Love, Matrimony, and the Indian Act 27 4 Indian Rights for Indian Women 55 5 A Tribute to Jenny Shirt Margetts 71 6 How We Worked Together 81 7 Fighting for Our Birthright 97 8 This Is Our Land 109 Closing Words 119 Family Tree 121 Timeline 125 Honour Roll 131 Notes 137 Glossary 149 Further Reading 153 Index 157
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Indian Art Culture
Book SynopsisArt and Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northwest Coast is the land whose aboriginal in habitants are distinguished by their large rectangular wooden houses, totems and dug-out canoes, and their dependence upon the products of the sea for their food. They placed great value upon purity of family descent and the virtue of benevolence in the disposition of property; but most conspicuous of all their traits is their highly original art.
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Totem Poles of the Northwest
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Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Voyages of Hope
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McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US WagonMaking in the United States
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CLEAR LIGHT PUBLISHERS (US) Wildest of the Wild West
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Clear Light Publishers Pueblo Profiles Cultural Identity Through
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Craven Street Books Shepherds Life Impressions of the South Wilshire
Book SynopsisOriginally published in England in 1910, this story of a shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, describes life in the south-central English county of Wiltshire before the turn of the 20th century. It is a charming picture of pastoral life that often seems idyllic and simple when viewed from the present. Caleb Bawcombe is a fictitious name thought to represent one James Lawes, and the town in the tale, Winterbourne Bishop, has been identified as the town of Martin. Friends, family, and acquaintances are interwoven in Caleb''s story, and the interaction between humanity and nature is highlighted, capturing life at that specific time and place.
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Craven Street Books Prodigal Sons The Violent History of Christopher
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Oratia Media P363kaki
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Oratia Media Urban Maori
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Oratia Media Waka Taua
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Otago University Press Phoney Wars
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. It questions the war as a story of good against bad. All readers know that the Axis powers behaved ruthlessly, but how many are aware of the brutality of the Allied powers in bombing and starving enemy towns and cities? New Zealand colluded in and even carried out such brutal aggressions. Were we, in going to war, really on the side of the angels? Contrary to the propaganda of the time -- and subsequent memory -- going to war did not unite New Zealanders: it divided them, often bitterly. People disagreed over whether or not we should fight, what we were fighting for and why, who was fighting, who was paying, and who was dying. In this provocative and moving book, Stevan and Hugh Eldred-Grigg exp
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Laurier Institution Prospering Together
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Massey University Press Experience of a Lifetime
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Massey University Press Sunday Best
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Te Papa Press Protest Tautohetohe Objects of Resistance
Book SynopsisAN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PROTEST AND ACTIVISM IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALANDTrade Review'This book is a valuable koha to those who missed class or were born away from the roots of knowledge. It is a fresh taonga for the bookshelf, and necessary for anyone who tells you how perfect New Zealand is' - Jessica Thompson Carr, Landfall Review Online; 'From a strong pool of contenders, one book stood above the others, not only achieving excellence in writing, illustration and design, but also – crucially – tackling a vast and significant topic worthy of these urgent times'; ‘Readers are drawn into Aotearoa’s rich and raw stories from contact to now. Engaging, insightful and incredibly well-researched texts by multiple authors provide a cohesive and strong overall narrative, covering a huge breadth of our history and the themes that define us as a nation' - Ockham judges' comments;Table of Contents06 Preface 10 Protest, remember and survive 18 Collisions 48 War 98 Anti-nuclear protest 126 Mana motuhake 166 Apartheid 212 Women & Protest 250 LGBTQI+ protest 270 Civil rights 314 Class & economic protest 354 Environment 398 Acknowledgements 400 Notes 404 Select bibliography 406 About the contributors 408 Index
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Massey University Press City at the Centre The History of Palmerston
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Massey University Press Tooth and Veil
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Cambridge University Press The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in
Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive study of images of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Péter Bokody examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing produced in kingdoms (Sicily and Naples) and city-republics (Florence, Siena, Lucca, Bologna and Padua). Whilst misogynistic endorsement characterized many of these visual discourses, some urban communities condemned rape in their propaganda against tyranny. Such representations of rape often link gender and aggression to war, abduction, sodomy, prostitution, pregnancy, and suicide. Bokody also traces how the new naturalism in painting, introduced by Giotto, increased verisimilitude, but also fostered imagery that coupled eroticism and violation. Exploring images and texts that have long been overlooked, Bokody''s study provides new insights at the intersection of gender, policy, and visual culture, with evidentTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Victims of lust; 3. Medicalized misogyny; 4. Rape as a weapon of war; 5. Political allegories; 6. Abduction in illustrated romances; 7. Lucretia and the renaissance rape.
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Cambridge University Press Old Age and American Slavery
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Cambridge University Press Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires
Book SynopsisExamining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective.Trade Review'With her distinctive form of precision historiography, Tracy Davis has given us a vital and necessary addendum to the long history and ongoing project of abolitionism. Focusing primarily on the lives and work of three Victorians, Davis elaborates a theory of performance that situates seemingly minor forms of activism - hosting dinners and attending meetings, letter-writing campaigns, journalistic reportage, and speechifying - as fundamental to the cultivation of solidarity and to the momentum of political engagement. This is a wonderful book: meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and beautifully narrated.' Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego'How was the work of social and political reform performed? And how did performance change the means and outcomes of that activism? In this remarkable, carefully-wrought book, Tracy Davis turns our attention to the importance of dramaturgy to the work of nineteenth-century reform movements, illuminating how one scholar can find performance in everything from petitioning to letter-writing and parades. A terrific feat of scholarship.' Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University'In her compelling new study, Tracy Davis challenges preconceptions about how early activists developed and shared their strategies, revealing networks of association and exchange that traversed the globe. This book invites readers to rethink what kinds of performances constitute activism and how historians can recover traces of those spectacles in even the most unlikely places.' Heather Nathans, Tufts University'Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires explores the formation of the modern, liberal society through a broad variety of performative interactions. Political rhetoric, sermons, social conversations, and theatre are the foundation for this, made visible through Frederick Chesson's meticulously written diaries. Following the traces of women's and men's private lives and commitments to form public, political personae, Tracy C. Davis unfolds a broad and colourful panorama of the emergence of activism based in England but with connections to the United States, India under British rule, and a global network. Davis sets a new, inspiring standard in thinking about political performance.' Peter W. Marx, Institut für Medienkultur und Theater'Tracy Davis' timely and urgent study of the history of liberal campaigning in the Nineteenth Century insists on returning the question of performance to the history of activism. Drawing on the performance frames of mises en scene, repertoire and dramaturgy, Davis's excellent book reveals the performance tactics that activists deployed to make their case. This is Performance Studies at its best, revealing the theatre as a vital resource for the campaigning tactics underpinning Victorian repertoires of protest and persuasion that are still being used by activists today.' Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: History as Performance History; 1. Forms and Increments of Performance; 2. Change Making: Incrementalism; 3. Bildung: Leveraging Critique to Propel the Precarious into Political Life; 4. Combative Pens; 5. Experiments in Becoming.
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Cambridge University Press The Diary of George Lloyd Volume 64 Part 1
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