The West and beyond new perspectives on an imagined region
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- ISBN: 9781897425817 (electronic)
- ISBN: 1897425813 (electronic)
- ISBN: 9781897425800 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1897425805 (pbk.)
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1 online resource (xxv, 435 p.) : ill., map. - Publisher: Edmonton : Athabasca University, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19-21 June, 2008. Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part One. Frameworks for Western Canadian History. Critical History in Western Canada 1900-2000 / Gerald Friesen -- Vernacular Currents in Western Canadian Historiography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe, and Roy Ito / Lyle Dick -- Cree Intellectual Traditions in History / Winona Wheeler -- Part Two. The Aboriginal West. Visualizing Space, Race, and History in the North: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp -- The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions of Insanity in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872-1950 / Kathryn McKay -- Space, Temporality, History: Encountering Hauntings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside / Amber Dean -- The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and Race Politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey -- Part Three. The Worker's West. Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour, and Class Formation in Prairie Canada / Jeffery Taylor -- Two Wests, One-and-a-Half Paradigms, and, Perhaps, Beyond / Elizabeth Jameson -- Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health, and Working-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906-19 / Esyllt W. Jones -- Winnipeg's Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 / John Willis -- Part Four. Viewing the West from the Margins. "Our Negro Citizens": An Example of Everyday Citizenship Practices / Dan Cui and Jennifer R. Kelly -- A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies: Reorienting Western Canadian Histories / Valerie j. Korinek -- Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia, 1953-84 / Dominique Clément -- Part Five. Cultural Portrayals of the West. W.L. Morton, Margaret Laurence, and the Writing of Manitoba / Robert Wardhaugh -- The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler -- Eric Harvie: Without and Within Robert Kroetsch's Alibi / Robyn Read -- "It's a Landmark in the Community": The Conservation of Historic Places in Saskatchewan, 1911-2009 / Bruce Dawson. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. History. Conference proceedings. |