The Prairie West as promised land /

This group of essays, which includes contributions from some of the best-known Prairie historians as well as some of the most promising new scholars in the field, explores a pervasive theme in western history - the Prairie West as promised land - and makes an important contribution to the historiogr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Francis, R. D. (R. Douglas), 1944-, Kitzan, Chris, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, ©2007.
Temas:
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Prairie Provinces > History > Textbooks.
Prairie Provinces > History.
Provinces des Prairies > Histoire.
Utopies > Provinces des Prairies > Histoire.
Prairie Provinces.
Alberta author.
History.
Textbooks.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Bibliographic Information
  • TOC36;Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section I58; Visions of the Promised Land
  • CH36;146;The Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier
  • CH36;246; Adventurers in the Promised Land58; British Writers in the Cnaadian Northwest44; 184145;1913
  • CH36;346; Canada39;s Rocky Mountain Parks58; Rationality44; Romanticism44; and a Modern Canada
  • CH36;446; Clifford Sifton39;s Vision of the Prairie West
  • Section II58; Settling the Promised Land
  • CH36;546; 34;We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live34;58; The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900
  • CH36;646; Utopian Ideals and Community Settlements in Western canada44; 1880 45; 1914
  • CH36;746; 34;Land We Can Own34;58; Settling in the Promised Land
  • Section III58; Envisioning the Prairie West as a Perfect Society
  • CH36;846; The City Yes44; The City No58; Perfection By Design in the Western City
  • CH36;946; The Land of the Second Chance58; Nellie McClung39;s West as Promised Land
  • CH36;1046; The Kingdon of God on the Priaries58; J46;S46; Woodsworth39;s Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land
  • CH36;1146; 34;A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise34;58; The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement44; 190945;1923
  • Section IV58; A Promised Land for the 34;Chosen People34;
  • CH36;1246; 34;No Place for a Woman34;58; Engendering Western Canadian Settlement
  • CH36;1346; Preaching Purity in the Promised Land58; Bishop Lloyd and the Immigration Debate
  • CH36;1446; Policing the Promised Land58; The RCMP and Negative Nation45;Building in Alberta and Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period
  • Section V58; Readjusting the Vision of the Promised Land in the Modern Era
  • CH36;1546; Uncertain Promise58; The Prairie Farmer and the Post45;War Era
  • CH36;1646; The Artist39;s Eye58; Modernist and Postmodernist Visualizations of the Prairie West
  • CH36;1746; The Dream Still Lives58; Promised Land Narratives During the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee
  • CH36;1846; From Farm to Community Co45;Operatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan44; 190545;2005
  • Notes on Contributors
  • IDX36;Index
  • Last Page.

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