| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Preface: Sharing the West(s) / C.L. Higham and Robert Thacker -- Introduction: No Catlin without Kane, or, Really understanding the "American" West / Robert Thacker -- Turner versus Innis: two mythic wests / R. Douglas Francis -- One West, one myth: transborder continuity in Western art / Brian W. Dippie -- A Northern vision: frontiers and the West in the Canadian and American imagination / William H. Katerberg -- Transnational perspectives on the history of Great Plains women: gender, race, nations, and the forty-ninth parallel / Sarah Carter -- Myths and realities in American-Canadian studies: challenges to comparing Native peoples' experiences / Roger L. Nichols -- Prairies and plains: the levelling of difference in Stegner's Wolf Willow / David L. Williams -- Whose West is it anyway? or, What's myth got to do with it? : the role of "America" in the creation of the myth of the West / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Leading the parade / Aritha van Herk -- The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Frontierism, metropolitanism, and Canadian history / J.M.S. Careless -- Bibliographic essay / C.L. Higham |
| Summary |
Presents scholarly views on the comparison of the Canadian and American Wests and the various methodologies involved |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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"Bibliographic essay": pages 215-220 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada, Western
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Cross-cultural studies
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Legends -- Canada, Western
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Legends -- West (U.S.)
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HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY -- North America.
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Boundaries
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Legends
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Grenze
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146151
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Canada -- Boundaries -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006005901
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United States -- Boundaries -- Canada.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139916
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Canada, Western -- History
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Canada
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Western Canada
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United States
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West United States
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Frontier
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USA -- Weststaaten
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Kanada -- West
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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History
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Anthologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thacker, Robert, 1951-
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Higham, C. L.
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| LC no. |
2007386625 |
| ISBN |
9781435613157 |
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1435613155 |
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9781552384237 |
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1552384233 |
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