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Alberta\u27s Resources Negotiations and Bannf and Jasper National Parks
No full textThe Government of Canada retained control of Crown lands and mineral and water rights in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba until 1930 when they were transferred to the three provincial governments as a result of agreements reached in 1929. In the case of Alberta, the agreement also settled the boundaries for Banff and Jasper national parks. The national parks discussions helped establish the principle that resource extraction would not take place in national parks anywhere in Canada. This paper examines the political background to the discussions over national parks and the process for setting the boundaries of these parks, with an emphasis on a report on park boundaries that addressed resource development and wildlife management in and near the parks, issues that parks administrators continue to face today
The Disposal of Human Waste: A Comparison Between Ancient Rome and Medieval London
No full textThe disposal of sewage is a luxury many societies generally take for granted. It is an aspect of ancient life often ignored and it is the purpose of this paper to recognize and understand how sewage was collected and disposed of in particular cases. This essay examines the waste disposal options used in Ancient Rome and Medieval London, two cities that dealt with sewage in different ways. By recognizing and understanding how these societies treated their human waste, a fair assessment can be made about whether or not the methods applied could be deemed suitable to meet a high or acceptable standard of health for its citizens. This paper argues that Ancient Rome and Medieval London were more concerned with alleviating the filthy sight and obnoxious odor caused by human waste than with addressing public health issues
Text as Discourse: The Chinese in Canada in Historiographical Perspective
No full textAs a historiographical analysis, this essay seeks to understand the idea of historical layering through the topic of Chinese immigration to Canada. It considers the following four works: In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia (1974) by James Morton, White Canada Forever: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia (1978) by W Peter Ward, From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada (1982) by Harry Con et al., and The Concubine\u27s Children (1994) by Denise Chong. It does so in an effort to compare and contrast their approaches with regard to consensus and specialist histories, top-down and bottom-up approaches, as well as passive and active historical representations
Nándor Dreisziger: Hungarians From Ancient Times to 1956. Biographical and Historical Essays
No full textMeanings of Motherhood: Maternal Experiences and Perceptions on Low Country South Carolina Plantations
No full textThis paper is a comparative study of the meanings of motherhood for black and white women in the antebellum South. Even the prescriptive literature concerning motherhood penned by women during the first half of the nineteenth century largely ignored the health-related aspects of motherhood. Records of the experience of white plantation mistresses and female plantation slaves in antebellum, low country South Carolina, however, reveal that concerns with health, both mortality and morbidity, dominated the maternal experience of these women. Furthermore, in this particular geographic location, motherhood itself was centred more in the extended family than in the nuclear family
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon
No full textAmerican Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. By Stephen Prothero. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. 2003. 364pp. $41.50 (cloth)
Ikeda Daisaku Compared to Cho Yonggi: Insight into Post-War Japanese and Korean History
No full textIkeda Daisaku, as the third leader of Japan\u27s largest so-called \u27New Religion,\u27 has received much journalistic and scholarly attention since his taking over leadership in 1960 of Soka Gakkai. None of these treatments, however, has looked at Ikeda in a rigorously comparative fashion. This essay will make an explicit comparison of Ikeda\u27s career with: Cho Yonggi, the South Korean Pentecostal Christian minister who founded the world\u27s largest church, the Yoido Full Gospel Church. The comparison will be made to highlight unique features of Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and Komeito, Soka Gakkai\u27s affiliated political party which presently forms part of the ruling coalition of the Japanese government. It will be argued, however, that this comparison tells us more about modern (and post-war) Japan than about Ikeda, especially the continuing marginal social standing of \u27New Religions\u27 and the cost of being a charismatic leader in a society dominated by \u27groupism \u27