Before and After the State

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.

• Introduction: Hegemonic Transformation and the Imposition of the State in the Pacific Northwest / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougallPart 1: Superimposing a Statist Structure: Setting the Stage1 Setting the Political Stage in the Pacific Northwest / Allan K. McDougall2 Identities on the Fringe / Daniel L. Boxberger3 Eastern Games, Western Lives, 1793–1846 / Allan K. McDougall4 Superimposing the Statist System / Allan K. McDougall5 On a Mission: Translocality and Hegemonic Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Oregon / Allan K. McDougall6 The Impact of Hegemonic Change on Blended Communities / Daniel L. BoxbergerPart 2: Hegemonic Transformation: Roles, Players, and Improvisations7 Creating a Script: Hegemonic Transformation, Identity, and Translocality / Allan K. McDougall8 Defining Roles and Constructing the Cast / Lisa Philips9 Early Improvisations: Ranald MacDonald / Lisa Philips10 Written out of the Script: Three Generations of McKays / Lisa Philips11 Later Revisions: (Re)constructing the Cast of US and Canadian Pioneers / Lisa PhilipsConclusion: Epic Scripts / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougallNotes; Index

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)