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Informationen zum Autor Paul Appleton, a history teacher, earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Calgary and pursued doctoral studies at Queen's University. He published articles about Dr. Moss in BC Historical News, The Westcoaster, and Archaeology magazine. Paul Appleton died in March 2006. Klappentext Co-published by the Arctic Institute of North America. Zusammenfassung Chronicles the life and death of Edward Lawton Moss, a Royal Navy surgeon on the last great British north polar expedition of the nineteenth century. Arctic historians and bibliophiles are familiar with Moss's account of the 1875-76 British Arctic Expedition, but little has been known about Moss himself. Now his life takes shape in this biography. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier. Adventurers in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West! 1841-1913. Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality! Romanticism! & a Modern Canada. Clifford Sifton's Vision of the Prairie. "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree & Agriculture to 1900. Utopian Ideals & Community Settlements in Western Canada! 1880-1914. "Land I Can Own": Settling in the Promised Land. The City Yes! The City No: Perfection by Design in the Western City. Land of the Second Chance: Nellie McClung's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. The Kingdom of God on the Prairies: J.S. Woodsworth's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. "A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise": The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement! 1909-1923. "No Place for a Woman": Engendering Western Canadian Settlement. Preaching Purity in the Promised Land: Bishop Lloyd & the Immigration Debate. Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP & Negative Nation-Building in Alberta & Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period. Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer & the Post-War Era. The Artist's Eye: Modernist & Postmodern Visualizations of the Prairie West. The Dream Still Lives: Promised Land Narratives during the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee. From Farm to Community: Co-operatives in Alberta & Saskatchewan! 1905-2005. ...
