The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region

by Alvin Finkel (Editor), Sarah Carter (Editor), Peter Fortna (Editor)

Overview

The West and Beyond explores the state of Western Canadian history, showcasing the research interests of a new generation of scholars while charting new directions for the future and stimulating further interrogation of our past. This dynamic collection encourages dialogue among generations of historians of the West, and among practitioners of diverse approaches to the past. It also reflects a broad range of disciplinary and professional boundaries, offering new ways to understand the West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897425817
Publisher:	Athabasca University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Series:	The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	462
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Alvin Finkel has taught Canadian history at Athabasca University since 1978. His main areas of research and teaching are the history of social policy, labour history, and Western Canadian history. Best known for his co-authorship with Margaret Conrad of the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples, his other publications include The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta and Our Lives: Canada After 1945. His latest book is Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History. Sarah Carter is professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Recent books include The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada and Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own. Peter Fortna is a historical and traditional land use consultant in the Fort McMurray area. His research interests include Aboriginal history, traditional environmental knowledge, and public history. He was also the co-organizer for "The West and Beyond: Historians Past, Present and Future" conference, on which The West and Beyond is based.

Alvin Finkel has taught Canadian history at Athabasca University since 1978. His main areas of research and teaching are the history of social policy, labour history, and Western Canadian history. Best known for his co-authorship with Margaret Conrad of the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples, his other publications include The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta and Our Lives: Canada After 1945. His latest book is Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History.
Sarah Carter is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Recent books include The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada and Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own.
Peter Fortna is a historical and traditional land use consultant in the Fort McMurray area. His research interests include Aboriginal history, traditional environmental knowledge, and public history. He was also the co-organizer for "The West and Beyond: Historians Past, Present and Future" conference, on which The West and Beyond is based.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I. Frameworks for Western Canadian History
1. Critical History in Western Canada 1900-2000 / Gerald Friesen
2. Vernacular Currents in Western Canadian Historiography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe, and Roy Ito / Lyle Dick
3. Cree Intellectual Traditions in History / Winona Wheeler

Part II. The Aboriginal West
4.Visualizing Space, Race, and History in the North: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp
5. The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions of Insanity in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872-1950 / Kathryn McKay
6. Space, Temporality, History: Encountering Hauntings in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside / Amber Dean
7. The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and Race Politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey

Part III. The Workers' West
8. Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour, and Class 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, and Working-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906-19 / Esyllt W. Jones
11. Winnipeg's Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 / John Willis

Part IV. Viewing the West from the Margins
12. "Our Negro Citizens": An Example of Everyday Citizenship Practices / Dan Cui and Jennifer R. Kelly
13. A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies: Reorienting Western Canadian Histories / Valerie j. Korinek
14. Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia, 1953-84 / Dominique Clément

Part V. 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, and Memory 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": The Conservation of Historic Places in Saskatchewan, 1911-2009 / Bruce Dawson

Contributors / Index

What People are Saying About This

Simon Evans

The West and Beyond differs from most of its predecessors. Within the collection's diverse range of topics, the volume has a coherence, momentum, and integrity that set it apart. Among the several collections of papers published over the past few years, this book covers new gropund and introduces new voices.

From the Publisher

"The West and Beyond differs from most of its predecessors. Within the collection's diverse range of topics, the volume has a coherence, momentum, and integrity that set it apart. Among the several collections of papers published over the past few years, this book covers new gropund and introduces new voices."—Simon Evans, University of Calgary