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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Historical Essays on Language and Culture
River Road
La Vérendrye and the French Empire in Western North America
The Collected Writings of Louis Riel
Bilingualism in Manitoba: The Historical Context
Manitoba and the Meech Lake Accord
Constitutional Politics: Cardinal Points on a Prairie Compass
Part Two: Historical Articles on Dominant and Alternative Cultures
"Justice Systems" and Manitoba's Aboriginal People: An Historical Survey
Labour History and the Métis
The Manitoba Historical Society: A Centennial History
Principal J.H. Riddell and Wesley College: Sane and Safe Leadership
Bob Russell's Political Thought: Socialism and Industrial Unionism in Winnipeg, 1914 to 1919
Part Three: Toward New Historical Syntheses
Radical History in Australia: A Model for Canada?
Comparative History and Wheat Production: Argentina's Pampas and the Canadian Prairies
The Prairies as Region: The Contemporary Meaning of an Old Idea
Romantics, Pluralists, Postmodernists: Writing Ethnic History in Prairie Canada
Perimeter Vision: Three Notes on the History of Rural Manitoba
Hockey and Prairie Cultural History
Afterword: Still Teaching the Same Stuff?
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