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From Rupert's Land to Canada

Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

By: John Elgin Foster,Rod Macleod,Theodore Binnema

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From Rupert's Land to Canada

Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

By: John Elgin Foster,Rod Macleod,Theodore Binnema

Dr. John E. Foster spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and, playing with ideas that re-imagined the Canadian West. In From Rupert's Land to Canada, in tribute to John's work, his friends and colleagues further explore themes related to "Native History and the Fur Trade," "Metis History," and the "Imagined West". Contributors include Michael Payne, Nicole St-Onge, Jan Grabowski, Jennifer Brown, Heather Rollason, Frits Pannekoek, Heather Devine, Gerhard Ens, Gerry Friesen, Ted Binnema, Ian MacLaren, Rod Macleod, Tom Flanagan and Glen Campbell.

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University of Alberta

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0888643632

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9780888643636

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

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Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

Forging Alberta’s Constitutional Framework analyzes the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.

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University of Alberta

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0888644574

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9780888644572

From Rupert's Land to Canada

Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

By: John Elgin Foster,Rod Macleod,Theodore Binnema

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Essays in Honour of John E. Foster

By: John Elgin Foster,Rod Macleod,Theodore Binnema

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University of Alberta

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Catalogue of the entire collection of Sylvester S. Crosby

By: John W. Haseltine

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Catalogue of the entire collection of Sylvester S. Crosby

By: John W. Haseltine

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385307066

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9783385307063

Canada's Department of External Affairs: The early years, 1909-1946

By: John Hilliker,Donald Barry,Institute of Public Administration of Canada

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Canada's Department of External Affairs: The early years, 1909-1946

By: John Hilliker,Donald Barry,Institute of Public Administration of Canada

This first volume of the official history of the Department of External Affairs covers the department's administrative growth from its formation in 1909 through the major changes brought about by World War II.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773507515

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9780773507517

Jack The Ripper - An Encyclopedia

By: John J. Eddleston

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Jack The Ripper - An Encyclopedia

By: John J. Eddleston

The gruesome, unsolved murders by the first media-sensationalized serial killer, Jack the Ripper, continue to fascinate after more than 100 years. However, from the beginning the truth has been obscured by a fog of half-truths and misinterpretations. This book aims to clear up the misinformation and myths surrounding Jack the Ripper. The author uses a critical review of the kind that is now used to scrutinize unsolved crimes. He re-checks, re-examines and re-evaluates the facts, conjectures, newspaper accounts, eyewitness reports and official pronouncements. The book includes: descriptions of the locations where the bodies were found; detailed histories of the victims; profiles of key police officials and examinations of police procedures, investigations, blunders and errors; details of prevailing myths about the case; an evaluation of all the chief suspects; comprehensive analyses of the existing literature; discussions of written communications ostensibly sent by the Ripper; and an argument identifying the most likely suspects.

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320

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Metro Publishing

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1843580462

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9781843580461

Critical Essays

Vol. II

By: John Foster

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Critical Essays

Vol. II

By: John Foster

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

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3375178840

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9783375178840

Blues on Stage

The Blues Entertainment Industry in the 1920s

By: John L. Clark Jr.

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Blues on Stage

The Blues Entertainment Industry in the 1920s

By: John L. Clark Jr.

Blues on Stage presents a new history of the development of the "Classic Blues" of the 1920s, offering a comprehensive review of various Black singers who recorded and were influential in this era, including Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Butterbeans and Susie, and Ma Rainey. The business of music recording and publishing, including songwriting and touring theater circuits, is explored as part of the narrative of how and when these artists became nationally popular. The most highly regarded singers of this period were not folk or rural artists, but rather highly experienced stage professionals whose careers often extended two decades or more prior to their first recordings. These artists, some of the most famous acts on the Black vaudeville and tent show circuits, were preceded in the recording studio by many cabaret and nightclub singers with a different entertainment perspective and were followed by artists who came from a more rural, less professional background. For anyone interested in the roots of jazz and blues, Blues on Stage offers a new and comprehensive introduction to the development of this American musical style.

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State University of New York Press

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1438491565

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9781438491561

Shared Vision

Transformational Leadership in American Community Colleges

By: John E. Roueche,George A. Baker,Robert R. Rose

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Shared Vision

Transformational Leadership in American Community Colleges

By: John E. Roueche,George A. Baker,Robert R. Rose

Based on a study of 256 exemplary community college presidents, this book examines the attributes of outstanding leaders and their ability to orchestrate organizational change. Chapter 1 provides the background for the study, emphasizes the importance of leadership, and identifies attributes common to transformational leaders; that is, leaders who work with their followers so that each raises the other to higher levels of motivation and morality. Chapter 2 summarizes leadership theory and offers a discussion of transformational leadership and its place in a rapidly changing society. After chapter 3 reviews the study methodology, chapters 4 and 5 present findings on the demographic and leadership characteristics of the presidents selected for in-depth study. Chapters 6 through 10 discuss key elements of transformational leadership, including shared vision, teamwork and collaborative decision making, institutional climate and the relationship between the institution and the individuals within it, motivation as a means of achieving followers' acceptance of the shared vision, and personal values, integrity, and commitment to learning. Chapter 11 examines women in community college leadership roles. Finally, chapter 12 presents a summary of the research, a discussion of the problems faced by minority leaders, and a review of study implications. The survey instruments and an eighty-five-item bibliography are appended.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475814364

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9781475814361

The Confederate Alamo

Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865

By: John J. Fox

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The Confederate Alamo

Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865

By: John J. Fox

The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: “Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best.” —Civil War News By April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant’s men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to craft an escape, a small motley group of threadbare Southerners made a suicidal last stand at a place called Fort Gregg. The venerable Union commander Major General John Gibbon called the struggle “one of the most desperate ever witnessed.” At 1:00 p.m., hearts pounded in the chests of thousands of Union soldiers in Gibbon’s 24th Corps. These courageous men fixed bayonets and charged across 800 yards of open ground into withering small arms and artillery fire. A handful of Confederates rammed cartridges into their guns and fired over Fort Gregg’s muddy parapets at this tidal wave of fresh Federal troops. Short on ammunition and men but not on bravery, these Southerners wondered if their last stand would make a difference. Many of the veterans who fought at this place considered it the nastiest fight of their war experience. Most could not shake the gruesome memories, yet when they passed on, the battle faded with them. On these pages, award-winning historian John Fox resurrects these forgotten stories, using numerous unpublished letters and diaries to take the reader from the Union battle lines all the way into Fort Gregg’s smoking cauldron of hell. Fourteen Federal soldiers would later receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for their valor during this hand-to-hand melee, yet the few bloody Confederate survivors would experience an ignominious end to their war. This richly detailed account is filled with maps, photos, and new perspectives on the strategic effect this little-known battle really had on the war in Virginia.

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Casemate Publishers

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1940669162

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9781940669168

Kika Kila

How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music

By: John W. Troutman

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Kika Kila

How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music

By: John W. Troutman

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of k&299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the instrument's definitive history, from its discovery by a young Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its revolutionary influence on American and world music. During the early twentieth century, Hawaiian musicians traveled the globe, from tent shows in the Mississippi Delta, where they shaped the new sounds of country and the blues, to regal theaters and vaudeville stages in New York, Berlin, Kolkata, and beyond. In the process, Hawaiian guitarists recast the role of the guitar in modern life. But as Troutman explains, by the 1970s the instrument's embrace and adoption overseas also worked to challenge its cultural legitimacy in the eyes of a new generation of Hawaiian musicians. As a consequence, the indigenous instrument nearly disappeared in its homeland. Using rich musical and historical sources, including interviews with musicians and their descendants, Troutman provides the complete story of how this Native Hawaiian instrument transformed not only American music but the sounds of modern music throughout the world.

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UNC Press Books

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1469627930

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9781469627939

Devil's Cave: the Treasure Found

The Treasure Found

By: John Nuzzolese

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Devil's Cave: the Treasure Found

The Treasure Found

By: John Nuzzolese

Devils Cave: The Treasure Found Circa 2000 is an amusing novel that has a touch of everything including romance, intrigue, murder, and surprising twists and turns that embroil the reader in suspense until the very end. Dr. Joseph Federico, Counseling Psychologist Realistic imagery gives Nuzzoleses readers the notion that the existence of such a buried treasure, as he describes it to be, certainly fits within the realm of possibilities. Arlette Szegfu, Artist (Trinity, Florida) The author gives the reader a front-row seat in actively participating up close to every riveting chapter. Its the complete novel everyones been searching for. Kenneth Tillman, Account Executive (Hallmark Cards) Devils Cave is a front-to-back page-turner that keeps the reader thinking, guessing, and totally absorbed. John Nuzzolese manages to use the dialogue of his characters in conveying food for thought to his readers. Ret. Captain William Cummings, Massachusetts State Police

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462819338

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9781462819331

Book's by John Elgin Foster

From Rupert's Land to Canada

From Rupert's Land to Canada

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

From Rupert's Land to Canada

From Rupert's Land to Canada

Catalogue of the entire collection of Sylvester S. Crosby

Catalogue of the entire collection of Sylvester S. Crosby

Canada's Department of External Affairs: The early years, 1909-1946

Canada's Department of External Affairs: The early years, 1909-1946

Jack The Ripper - An Encyclopedia

Jack The Ripper - An Encyclopedia

Critical Essays

Critical Essays

Blues on Stage

Blues on Stage

Shared Vision

Shared Vision

The Confederate Alamo

The Confederate Alamo

Kika Kila

Kika Kila

Devil's Cave: the Treasure Found

Devil's Cave: the Treasure Found

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