Author : Henry Cornelius Klassen
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1552380092
Klassen looks at the role businesses have played in the economic, political, and social development of the province since the earliest European traders. Relying heavily on analysis and case studies, he considers the birth of business firms and the subsequent effects they have had on broader political and cultural matters. Canadian card order number: C99-910550-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1926836588
A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Author : Eric John Hanson
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1552380904
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 : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888642967
Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid impressions on all of Alberta's writers--both those who passed through Alberta in search of other horizons and those who made it their home. The Literary History of Alberta surveys writing in and about Alberta from prehistory to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes profiles of dozens of writers (from the earnestly intended to the truly gifted) and their texts (from the commercial to the arcane). It reminds us of long-forgotten names and faces, figures who quietly--or not so quietly--wrote the books that underpin Alberta's thriving literary culture today. Melnyk also discusses the institutions that have shaped Alberta's literary culture. The Literary History of Alberta is an essential text for any reader interested in the cultural history of western Canada, and a landmark achievement in Alberta's continuing literary history.
Author : Walter H. Johns
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780888640253
Walter H. Johns, president of the University of Alberta during the most hectic years of growth, 1959 to 1969, tells a story of great human interest as well as documenting for posterity the academic and administrative functions of this Canadian university and the covering provincial legislation.
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780888643247
In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the twentieth century. At last, Melnyk argues, Alberta writers have found their voice--and their accomplishments have been remarkable. The contradictory landscape, the stereotypes of the Indian, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, and the language of the Other, speaking from the margins--these elements all left their impressions on the consciousness of early Alberta. But writers in the last few decades have turned this inheritance to their advantage, to create compelling stories about this place and its people. Today, Melnyk discovers, Alberta writers can appreciate not only this achievement, but also its essential source: the symbolic communication of Writing-on-Stone. The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two extends the study of Alberta's cultural history to the present day. It is a vital text for anyone interested in Alberta's vibrant literary culture.
Author : Gloria Strathern
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888641373
Studies of Alberta's newspapers have generally concentrated on better-known newspapers published in major centres and the organs of significant political parties. Gloria H. Strathern's exhaustive historical directory makes it possible to review the role of the press on a more comprehensive basis.
Author : Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381946
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 : Joachim Fromhold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1365140938
A continuation of the History of Central Alberta from 1840-1860 covering the developments of the 1860's. The 1860's were both the apogee of the Plains Indian culture in the west, and the move towards the political and economic growth of the west as a successful Native State. At the same time, it marked a crisis period and the beginning of the end of the west and the First Nations as an independent sovreign people prior to the hostile annexation of the west by Canada.
Author : Joachim Fromhold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1329540379
Part of a series on the history of the Western Cree from the earliest pre-historic times to the post-reservation era.
