Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies 9780773588622

An interdisciplinary look at a neglected region of the Canada-US border.

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Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies
9780773588622

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Kyle Conway
Timothy Pasch

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Paradoxes of the Border
THE MEDIATED BORDER
1 - The Borders of Cultural Difference: Canadian Television and Cultural Identity
2 - The Canadian Sitcom and the Fantasy of National Difference: Little Mosque on the Prairie and English-Canadian Identity
3 - The Flow of Amusement: The First Year of Moving Pictures in the Red River Valley
THE POLITICAL BORDER
4 - “Shutting Down the Snake Ranch”: Battling Booze at the BC Border, 1910–14
5 - International and Domestic Pressures on the Governance of the St Mary and Milk Rivers
6 - Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains States and the Prairie Provinces: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s All Wet
THE NATIVE BORDER
7 - Border Studies and Indigenous Peoples: Reconsidering Our Approach
8 - Navigating the “Erotic Conversion”: Transgression and Sovereignty in Native Literatures of the Northern Plains
9 - The Anishnaabeg of Bawating: Indigenous People Look at the Canada-US Border
Conclusion: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Border
Contributors
Index

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