Prairie West Historical Readings

The Prairie West: Historical Readings is a collection of thirty-five articles on Canadian prairie history written by Canada's leading historians, political scientists and economists. This newly expanded and revised edition of The Prairie West will continue to provide a selection of articles, which present both overview interpretation and current research, for use by scholars and students of prairie Canada.The articles are divided into fifteen topics--Interpretations and Historiography; Native People and the Fur ™ The M tis, The Red River Colony and Canada; The West and Confederation; Indian Treaties and the Establishment of Canadian Law and Order; The Economics of Settlement; Ethnic Groups and Prairie Society; The Settlement Experience and the Creation of Prairie Institutions; Prairie Women; Rural and Agricultural Society of Prairie Canada; Urban Society and Labour in Prairie Canada; Agrarian Reform/Revo< Prairie Society and Politics in the Great Depression; The Modern West: Politics and Economics; and Literature and Art.Francis, R. Douglas is the author of 'Prairie West Historical Readings', published 1985 under ISBN 9780888642271 and ISBN 088864227X.