West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies – serie
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance
Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
Häftad, 2009
403 kr
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Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensuredfreedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers intothe First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC,liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force.Between 1877 and 1927, …
West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined "Region"
Av Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
338 kr
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The West and Beyond evaluates and appraises the state ofWestern Canadian history, acknowledging and assessing the contributionsof historians of the past and present while showcasing the researchinterests of a new generation of scholars. It charts new directions forthe future and stimulates further …
Recollecting
Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
Av Sarah Carter, Patricia McCormack
Häftad, 2011
395 kr
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Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.Some essays focus on individuals – a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other …
Goodlands
A Meditation and History on the Great Plains
Häftad, 2011
424 kr
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Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountifulNative soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystemthat the peoples who originally populated the land had long understoodand were able to use wisely. Settlers justified this transformationwith the unexamined …
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
Av Max Foran
Inbunden, 2008
1085 kr
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An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede, aninvented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 daysevery July. Since 1923, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians"are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughoutCalgary. Each essay in this collection …
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
Av Max Foran
Häftad, 2008
366 kr
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An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede, aninvented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 daysevery July. Since 1923, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians"are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughoutCalgary. Each essay in this collection …
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945–1978
Av Max Foran
Häftad, 2009
356 kr
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This is a groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after theSecond World War. The interactions of land developers and the localgovernment influenced how the pattern grew: developers met marketdemands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently aspossible, while the city had to …
