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Article: West: regional ambitions, national debates, global age.
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- Manitoba History
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- March 22, 2000
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Gerald Friesen, The West: Regional Ambitions, National Debates, Global Age. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1999. Pp. xviii, 189, ISBN 0-14-028421-4, $19.99.
"The West is a national issue?" wondered a surprised Gerald Friesen when eastern Canadians queried him in 1996-97 about the commitment of westerners to Canada.(xiii) Were the region's debates so different from those to the east that outsiders could not relate to western issues as national concerns? Could westerners not communicate their perspectives in ways that engaged all Canadians in the questions that aroused their passions? In reaction, Friesen set out to explain the West so that Canadians might better ...
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Article: River road: essays on Manitoba and prairie history.
Manitoba History;
March 22, 1999 ;
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... ... neighbourhood schools. Nor is there anything new in this. As Gerald Friesen points out, Mary Kennedy, living on the River Road north ... divided into three sections which reflect different aspects of Gerald Friesen's work as a historian. The first section of this book ...
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