| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 462 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 historiography of this region |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Prairie Provinces -- History -- Textbooks
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Prairie Provinces -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93009540
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| Subject |
Prairie Provinces.
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| Genre/Form |
Alberta author.
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History.
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Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Francis, R. D. (R. Douglas), 1944-
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Kitzan, Chris, 1970-
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| LC no. |
2007531861 |
| ISBN |
9781429498999 |
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1429498994 |
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9781552384329 |
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1552384322 |
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