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West: regional ambitions, national debates, global age.
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 ...
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