Frances W Kaye

Goodlands

A Meditation and History on the Great Plains

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Produktbeschreibung

Frances W. Kaye is a professor in the Department ofEnglish at the University of Nebraska. She has held two FulbrightTeaching Program positions, in Montreal and in Calgary, the first ofwhich resulted in the book Hiding the Audience: Arts and ArtsInstitutions on the Prairies. Kaye divides her time between afarmstead outside Lincoln, Nebraska, and a house in Calgary, so thatshe may always be close to the prairie land that drives her research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UBC Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781897425985
• ISBN-10: 1897425988
• Artikelnr.: 35074956

Autorenporträt

Frances W. Kaye is a professor in the Department ofEnglish at the University of Nebraska. She has held two FulbrightTeaching Program positions, in Montreal and in Calgary, the first ofwhich resulted in the book Hiding the Audience: Arts and ArtsInstitutions on the Prairies. Kaye divides her time between afarmstead outside Lincoln, Nebraska, and a house in Calgary, so thatshe may always be close to the prairie land that drives her research.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. A Unified Field Theory of the Great Plains 17
2. Exploring the Explorers 45
3. Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part1: Custerand Riel
63
4. Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part2:Messianism, the
1885NorthwestResistance, and the 1890Lakota Ghost Dance 79
5. Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part3: JohnJoseph
Mathews' Wah'Kon-Tah and John G. Neihardt'sBlack Elk Speaks 111
6. Intellectual Justification for Conquest: ComparativeHistoriography of
the Canadian and US Wests 127
7. Homesteading as Capital Formation on the Great Plains 143
8. The Women's West 167
9. And Still the Waters 185
10. Dust Bowls 205
11. Mitigating but Not Rethinking: George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas,and the
Great Plains 217
12. Planning and Economic Theory 243
13. Mouse Beans and Drowned Rivers 265
14. Oil 275
15. Arts, Justice, and Hope on the Great Plains 291
 
Conclusion 319
Notes 333
Credits 365
Index 367