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

    Allan K. McDougall (Author), Lisa Philips (Author), Daniel L. Boxberger (Author)

    9780774836685

    Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2018

    332 pages, 7 b&w photos., 4 maps, 6 tables
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg

    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)

    The evolution of the Canada–US borderland in the Pacific Northwest included the wholesale transformation of social organization and individual identities together with the redefinition and application of public power. Before and After the State examines the impact of those changes across a region that already harboured a vibrant, highly complex mélange of societies with dynamic local, regional, and global trade and kin networks. Allan McDougall, Lisa Philips, and Daniel Boxberger explore fundamental questions of state formation, social transformation, and the (re)construction of identity to expose the narratives and other devices of nation building, their impact on generations caught in the transition, and the reverberations of those national myths that continue to the present.

    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
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