Views from Fort Battleford

Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West

von Walter Hildebrandt

130 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The myth of the Mounties as neutral arbiters between Aboriginal peoples and incoming settlers remains a cornerstone of the western Canadian narrative of a peaceful frontier experience that differs dramatically from its American equivalent. Walter Hildebrandt eviscerates this myth, placing the NWMP and early settlement in an international framework of imperialist plunder and the imposition of colonialist ideology.