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Before and After the State

Before and After the State

Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest

by Allan K. McDougall, Lisa Philips and Daniel L. Boxberger

Published by: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

7 b&w photos., 4 maps, 6 tables

Digital download
9780774836692
Published: March 2018

Digital download
9780774836708
Published: March 2018

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This book will find an audience among scholars of Pacific Northwest and BC studies, Indigenous studies, anthropology, history, and borderland studies. It will also be of interest to political scientists and legal scholars of borderland issues.

Introduction: Hegemonic Transformation and the Imposition of the State in the Pacific Northwest / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougall

Part 1: Superimposing a Statist Structure: Setting the Stage

1 Setting the Political Stage in the Pacific Northwest / Allan K. McDougall

2 Identities on the Fringe / Daniel L. Boxberger

3 Eastern Games, Western Lives, 1793–1846 / Allan K. McDougall

4 Superimposing the Statist System / Allan K. McDougall

5 On a Mission: Translocality and Hegemonic Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Oregon / Allan K. McDougall

6 The Impact of Hegemonic Change on Blended Communities / Daniel L. Boxberger

Part 2: Hegemonic Transformation: Roles, Players, and Improvisations

7 Creating a Script: Hegemonic Transformation, Identity, and Translocality / Allan K. McDougall

8 Defining Roles and Constructing the Cast / Lisa Philips

9 Early Improvisations: Ranald MacDonald / Lisa Philips

10 Written out of the Script: Three Generations of McKays / Lisa Philips

11 Later Revisions: (Re)constructing the Cast of US and Canadian Pioneers / Lisa Philips

Conclusion: Epic Scripts / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougall

Notes; Index

Allan K. McDougall is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Policing: The Evolution of a Mandate and John P. Robarts: His Life and Government, winner of a CHOICE book award. Lisa Philips is a professor emerita in anthropology at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Making Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices, numerous periodical articles and book chapters, and coeditor of Theorizing the Americanist Tradition. Daniel L. Boxberger is a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. He is the author of To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing and Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach, as well as many periodical articles and book chapters.

The authors show that histories on both sides of the border have downplayed pioneering before large-scale western migration.
~David R. Conn, Western Mariner

After reading this book one may never look at the Pacific Northwest in quite the same way. ~Tracie Lea-Scott, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai, British Journal of Canadian Studies