Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 interrogations of our past.
This collection encourages dialogue among the generations ofhistorians of the West and among practitioners of diverse approaches tothe past. It also reflects a broad range of disciplinary andprofessional boundaries, suggesting a number of different ways tounderstand the west.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part One. Frameworks for Western CanadianHistory
1. Critical History in Western Canada1900–2000 / Gerald Friesen
2. Vernacular Currents in Western CanadianHistoriography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe,and Roy Ito / Lyle Dick
3. Cree Intellectual Traditions in History /Winona Wheeler
Part Two. The Aboriginal West
4. Visualizing Space, Race, and History inthe North: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie RiverBasin / Matt Dyce and James Opp
5. The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions ofInsanity in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872–1950 /Kathryn McKay
6. Space, Temporality, History: EncounteringHauntings in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside / AmberDean
7. The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and RacePolitics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey
Part Three. The Workers’ West
8. Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour, andClass Formation in Prairie Canada / Jeffery Taylor
9. Two Wests, One-and-a-Half Paradigms, and,Perhaps, Beyond / Elizabeth Jameson
10. Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health, andWorking-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906–19 / Esyllt W.Jones
11. Winnipeg’s Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 /John Willis
Part Four. Viewing the West from the Margins
12. “Our Negro Citizens”: An Example of EverydayCitizenship Practices / Dan Cui and Jennifer R. Kelly
13. A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies: Reorienting Western CanadianHistories / Valerie J. Korinek
14. Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia,1953–84 / Dominique Clément
Part Five. Cultural Portrayals of the West
15. W.L. Morton, Margaret Laurence, and the Writing of Manitoba /Robert Wardhaugh
16. The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, andMemory Making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler
17. Eric Harvie: Without and Within Robert Kroetsch’s Alibi /Robyn Read
18. “It’s a Landmark in the Community”: TheConservation of Historic Places in Saskatchewan, 1911–2009 /Bruce Dawson
