Beyond the border : tensions across the forty-ninth parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies / edited by Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 250) p

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Paradoxes of the Border / The Mediated Border. 1 The Borders of Cultural Difference: Canadian Television and Cultural Identity / The Political Border. 4 "Shutting Down the Snake Ranch": Battling Booze at the BC Border, 1910-1493 / The Native Border. 7 Border Studies and Indigenous Peoples: Reconsidering Our Approach / Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch -- Serra Tinic ; 2 The Canadian Sitcom and the Fantasy of National Difference: Little Mosque on the Prairie and English-Canadian Identity / Christopher Cwynar ; 3 The Flow of Amusement: The First Year of Moving Pictures in the Red River Valley / Paul Moore -- Brandon Dimmel ; 5 International and Domestic Pressures on the Governance of the St Mary and Milk Rivers / Michelle Morris ; 6 Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains States and the Prairie Provinces: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's All Wet / Paul R. Sando -- Zalfa Feghali ; 8 Navigating the "Erotic Conversion": Transgression and Sovereignty in Native Literatures of the Northern Plains / Joshua D. Miner ; 9 The Anishnaabeg of Bawating: Indigenous People Look at the Canada-US Border / Phil Bellfy ; Conclusion: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Border / Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch.

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



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Borderlands--Political aspects--Great Plains--Congresses.
Borderlands--Political aspects--Prairie Provinces--Congresses.
Borderlands--Social aspects--Great Plains--Congresses.
Borderlands--Social aspects--Prairie Provinces--Congresses.
Group identity--Great Plains--Congresses.
Group identity--Prairie Provinces--Congresses.


Electronic Books.

F1060 / .B496 2013