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Title: |
The Prairie West: Historical Readings |
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| Edited by: |
R. Douglas Francis, Howard Palmer |
| ISBN10-13: |
088864227X : 9780888642271 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
760 |
| Weight: |
1.042 Kg. |
| Published: |
Pica Pica Press - January 1992 |
| List Price: |
38.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Out of Print
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| Subjects: |
Local history : Canada |
| The Prairie West: Historical Readings is a collection of thirty-five articles on Canadian prairie history written by Canada's leading historians, political scientists and economists. This newly expanded and revised edition of The Prairie West will continue to provide a selection of articles, which present both overview interpretation and current research, for use by scholars and students of prairie Canada. The articles are divided into fifteen topics--Interpretations and Historiography; Native People and the Fur Trade; The Métis, The Red River Colony and Canada; The West and Confederation; Indian Treaties and the Establishment of Canadian Law and Order; The Economics of Settlement; Ethnic Groups and Prairie Society; The Settlement Experience and the Creation of Prairie Institutions; Prairie Women; Rural and Agricultural Society of Prairie Canada; Urban Society and Labour in Prairie Canada; Agrarian Reform/Revolt; Prairie Society and Politics in the Great Depression; The Modern West: Politics and Economics; and Literature and Art. |
| Reviews: |
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"Many well-crafted and indispensable readings...." British Journal of Canadian Studies
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