Böcker utgivna av University of Calgary Press

Presents a fresh perspective on Partition - the birth of two nation states - India and Pakistan, and the end of the colonial period in India. This title studies the trauma experienced by survivors of Partition - the British who were forced to leave India, and the educated Indians, for whom this moment marked a rite of passage.

The Canadian War Museum's art collection is one of the finest in the world and the single largest repository of official war art in Canada. This title takes readers into a time and place, enabling a deeper understanding of the artists, their compelling, often disturbing, but always profound images.

A collection that stems from a conference at University of Calgary that included some of the most established names in the field of women's history in the US & Canada, as well as younger scholars, activists in the Aboriginal community & in farm women's organisations, volunteers in historical societies working to preserve women's voices.

Presents the story of Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company & a Cree woman. This title reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual, using materials from the Hudson's Bay Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and Bird's descendants living on the American Blackfoot Reservation in Browning, Montana.

Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. This title addresses it and includes case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica.

Nunavik is the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. This book offers a history of the development of self-government in education in Arctic Quebec, from the arrival of the first traders & missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century up to the creation of the Kativik School Board & its evaluation in the 1990s.

Details the natural history of the plants & animals found in the Galapagos Islands. This title discusses management and conservation of the Galapagos National Park, and includes visitor information and notes about the various tourist sites. It offers an index & checklist of plants & animals with page references & a glossary of technical terms.