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One West, Two Myths II

Presents scholarly views on the comparison of the Canadian and American Wests and the various methodologies involved
eBook, English, 2005
University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 2005
Cross-cultural studies
1 online resource (250 pages)
9781552382042, 1552382044
1024279952
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Bibliographic Information""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface: Sharing the West(s) ""; ""1 Introduction: No Catlin without Kane; or, Really Understanding the “American� West ""; ""Turner versus Innis: Two Mythic Wests ""; ""One West, One Myth: Transborder Continuity in Western Art ""; ""A Northern Vision: Frontiers and the West in the Canadian and American Imagination""; ""Transnational Perspectives on the History of Great Plains Women: Gender, Race, Nations, and the Forty-ninth Parallel"" ""Myths and Realities in American-Canadian Studies: Challenges to Comparing Native Peoples� Experiences""""Prairies and Plains: The Levelling of Difference in Stegner�s Wolf Willow ""; ""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 ""; ""Leading the Parade ""; ""Appendices""; ""The Signi cance of the Frontier in American History ""; ""Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History ""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""