Alberta formed, Alberta transformed
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 2
- Responsibility
- edited by Payne, Michael and Wetherell, Donald and Cavanaugh, Catherine with Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Alberta centennial
- Abstract
- 'Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial.' - Aurora
- Contents
- v. 2. The dance of the grizzly bear: boom to bust, 1912-13 / David C. Jones -- Enthusiasm embattled: 1916 and the great war / Duff Crerar -- 1919: "a year of extraordinary difficulty" / David Bright -- From idealism to pragmatism: 1923 in Alberta / Bradford J. Rennie -- 1929: "things are seldom what they seem" / Donald Smith -- 1935: the social credit revolution / Alvin Finkel -- 1948: ghosts and dreams / Patricia Myers -- 1947: the making of modern Alberta / David Breen -- 1951: oil's magic wand / Doug Owram -- 1955 -- celebrating together, celebrating apart: Albertans and their golden jubilee / Frances Swyripa -- 1967: embracing the future ... at arm's length / Max Forna -- Alberta's quiet revolution: 1973 and the early Lougheed years / James H. Marsh -- 1980: duel of the decade / Tammy Nemeth -- 1986: the bloom comes off the wild rose province / Herb Emery -- 1996 -- two Albertas: rural and urban trajectories / Roger Epp -- Alberta in 2004 / David Taras -- Looking back in Alberta history: reflections in a rear-view mirror / Michael Payne. Donald Wetherell, and Catherine Cavanaugh -- Contributors -- Index.
- Notes
- Volume One and Volume Two
- ISBN
- 1552381943
- Accession Number
- 7871
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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