Breaking the shackles of the metropolitan thesis: Prairie history, the environment and layered identities

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dc.contributor.authorIrwin, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-15
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:15:48Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:15:48Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.description.abstractThis review of writings in Canadian prairie history and western American history suggests that a new synthesis of prairie history that searches for identity within a new framework is needed. Prairie historians must begin their work with an understanding of the relationships between people and the environment on the prairies. These environmental relationships provide the continuity upon which a new understanding of prairie identity can be constructed. This identity must be understood as an autonomous layer of consciousness rather than a "limited identity" within a national consciousness.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/full-record/31h/785305
dc.identifier.citationIrwin, Robert. "Breaking the Shackles of the Metropolitan Thesis: Prairie History, the Environment and Layered Identities" Journal of Canadian Studies 33, no. 3 (1997): 98-118.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.32.3.98
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1905
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectCanadian prairie history
dc.subjectWestern American history
dc.subjectprairies
dc.subjectenvironmental relationships
dc.subjectprairie identity
dc.subjectprairie history
dc.subjectautonomous layer of consciousness
dc.titleBreaking the shackles of the metropolitan thesis: Prairie history, the environment and layered identities
dc.typeArticle
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