One West, Two Myths II
Presents scholarly views on the comparison of the Canadian and American Wests and the various methodologies involved
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""