Making Western Canada. This item is unavailable.Making Western Canada

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 is was―and is―the product of human agency rather than possessing an intangisble existence beyond the interaction of groups of people.

This ground-breaking new collection demonstrates the research interests of a new generation of scholars. For them, western Canadian history is far more complex and subtle than its depiction in the traditional literature. The emphasis in the book is on the way society has been made, the extent to which it was, and is, the product of human agency rather than possessing an intangible existence beyond the interaction of groups of people. Themes such as a gender, ethnicity, and power are emphasized throughout. The essays serve as a first-class introduction to the western Canadian past.