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This ground-breaking collection demonstrates the research interests of a new generation of scholars. Stressing such themes as gender, race and class, the book is compelling evidence that Western Canadian history is far more complex and subtle than its depiction in the traditional literature. The contributors emphasize the way society has been made, and the extent to which it was - and is - the product of human agency rather than possessing an intangible existency beyond the interaction of groups of people. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction / Elizabeth Jameson -- The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970 / Lyle Dick -- The Exploitation and Narration of the Captivity of Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock, 1885 / Sarah A. Carter -- Tonto's Due: Law, Culture, and Colonization in British Columbia / Tina Loo -- Clearcutting the British Columbia Coast: Work, Environment and the State, 1880-1930 / Richard A. Rajala == Workers and Intellectuals: The Theory of the New Class and Early Canadian Socialism / Mark Leier -- "A Bachelor's Paradise": Homesteaders, Hired Hands, and the Construction of Masculinity, 1880-1930 / Cecilia Danysk -- The Limitations of the Pioneering Partnership: The Alberta Campaign for Homestead Dower, 1909-1925 / Catherine Cavanaugh -- Schooling, White Supremacy, and the Formation of a Chinese Merchant Public in British Columbia / Timothy J. Stanley -- "The Past of My Place": Western Canadian Artists and the Uses of History / Jeremy Mouat -- Western Canadian History: A Selected Bibliography.

OCLC: 35937451