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A multidisciplinary analysis of the Canadian West.

Ethnic elites play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and "mainstream" societies. In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of Japanese, Ukrainian, and Scottish elites during the transition of Canadian identity from Anglo-conformity to ethnic pluralism.

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city's pre-eminent commercial photographer. His photographs have come to be iconic representations of early Winnipeg life. In Imagining Winnipeg, Esyllt W. Jones takes us beyond the iconic to reveal the complex artist behind the lens.

Offers a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers.

A social and economic history of one of the oldest Ukrainian settlements in Western Canada. Based on an analysis of government records, pioneer memoirs, and the Ukrainian and English language press, Community and Frontier is a detailed examination of the social, economic, and geographical challenges of a unique ethnic community.

Presents the first multidisciplinary study of the role of gaming in indigenous communities in Canada. The book examines the history of Aboriginal gaming and its role in indigenous political economy, the rise of large-scale casinos and cybergaming, the socio-ecological impact of problem gambling, and the challenges of labour unions and financial management.

Howard Pawley, former Premier of Manitoba (1981-88), led the province during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. In Keep True: A Life in Politics, Pawley takes us into the inner workings of his government during this period. He gives us a vivid play-by-play of the events, acknowledging what went right and what went wrong, while putting it all into a contemporary context.

Manitoba has a distinct political culture, one that has been overlooked in contemporary political studies. This title brings together the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, economists, public servants, and journalists to present a comprehensive analysis of the province's political life and its careful "mutual fund model" approach to economic and social policy.

For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haundenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity. In The Clay We Are Made Of, Susan M. Hill presents a retelling of the history of the Grand River Haundenosaunee from their Creation Story, through European contact to contemporary land claims negotiations.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed. Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s.

A stunning collection of 160 black and white photographs taken between 1968 and 1970. These images capture the innocence and earnestness of the early Canadian hippie movement, from political protests and speakers' corners, to Festival Express and the Mariposa Folk Festival.

In January 1986, Jim Walding was nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate for the Manitoba constituency of St. Vital. Although Walding had been an MLA for fifteen years, he had fallen out of favour with his party, and won the nomination by a single vote. Combining data drawn from archives, interviews, and the media, this offers a vivid and detailed study of the nomination process.

Power Struggle: Hydroelectric Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba.

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990.

The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

A study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment.

With roots going back to the Red River Settlement in the 1850s, Winnipeg's St. John's College is the oldest Anglophone educational institution in Western Canada. J.M. Bumsted here presents a lively look at the people and events at the heart of the history of St. John's College.

Adele Wiseman was a seminal figure in Canadian letters. Always independent and wilful, she charted her own literary career, based on her unfailing belief in her artistic vision. In The Force of Vocation, Ruth Panofsky presents Wiseman as a writer who doggedly and ambitiously perfected her craft, sought a wide audience for her work, and refused to compromise her work for marketability.

Mennonites are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. This study reveals that Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry's research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations.

Told by Paul Moss (1911-1995), a highly respected storyteller and ceremonial leader, these twelve texts introduce us to an immensely rich literature. Here, for the first time, these outstanding examples of indigenous North American literature are printed in their original but made accessible to a wider audience through English translation and comprehensive introductions.

A comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the freshwater fishes of Manitoba. Each species is accurately depicted in detailed colour photographs and accompanying map, with descriptions of physical characteristics, spawning and feeding habits, distribution, habitat, ecological role, and economic importance.

Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view 'from the ground' of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba.

One of the first parts of the Canada's north to be aggressively industrialized was northern Manitoba. Jim Mochoruk shows how government and business worked together to transform what had been the exclusive fur-trading preserve of the Hudsons Bay Company into an industrial hinterland.

After World War II, Canada accepted over 4,000 Polish immigrant soldiers and their families who did not want to return to a communist regime in their country. This book is a moving oral history of the experiences of forty-five individuals during that transition period between the outbreak of war and their eventual relocation in Canada.

In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981), and chancellor of the University of Manitoba.

Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community.

Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skilfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out".