Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives of Saskatchewan / editor, Jene M. Porter ; editorial board, Cheryl Avery ... [et al.].

Publication

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Porter, J. M. (Jene M.), 1937-
• Avery, Cheryl

Description

xiv, 377 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Perspectives of Saskatchewan, twenty-two noted scholars present an in-depth look at some of the major developments in the province's history, including subjects such as art, literature, demographics, politics, northern development, and religion. It lays the foundations for a greater understanding of Saskatchewan's unique history, identity, and place in Canada."--Jacket.

Subjects

• History
• Saskatchewan > Civilisation
• Saskatchewan > Histoire
• Saskatchewan > Civilization
• Saskatchewan > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Jene M. Porter -- Introduction / David E. Smith -- People of the Land: Population Changes in Saskatchewan / Peter S. Li -- Saskatchewan's Forgotten North: 1905 to 2005 / Robert M. Bone -- Saskatchewan: A Distinct Political Culture / David E. Smith -- The Myth of Multiculturalism in Early Saskatchewan / Bill Waiser -- Maskeko-Sakahikanihk: One Hundred Years for a Saskatchewan First Nation / Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond -- Saskatchewan's Path to Economic Development / James M. Pitsula -- One Hundred Years of Evolution in the Rural Economy / Jack C. Stabler and Rose Olfert -- Canada's "Co-Operative Province": Individualism and Mutualism in a Settler Society, 1905 to 2005 / Brett Fairbairn -- Medicare: Saskatchewan'S Gift to the Nation? / Harley D. Dickinson and Renee Torgerson -- The Prairie Face of Labour / Beth Bilson -- The People'S University? The University of Saskatchewan and the Province of Saskatchewan / Michael Hayden -- Science in Saskatchewan: The Early Years / Robert J. Woods -- Claiming Saskatchewan: Landscape Painting from 1905 to 1950 / Keith Bell -- Abstract Art on the Prairies / Eli Bornstein -- Writing Saskatchewan: The First Hundred Years / Neil Besner -- Women's Legislative and Political Participation in Saskatchewan, 1905 to 2005 / Cristine de Clercy -- An Ambiguous Inheritance: Church in Saskatchewan / Lynn Caldwell and Christopher Lind -- Saskatchewan's Diaspora / Mark Abley.

ISBN

• 9780887551833
• 0887551831

OCLC

• 226302745
• SCSB-12831671

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library