{"product_id":"authorized-heritage-robert-coutts-9780887559327","title":"Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuthorized Heritage\u003c\/em\u003e analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous views of history confront the conventions of settler colonial pasts and represent the fluid cultural perspectives that should define the shifting ground of heritage space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a public historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a conventional and conservative national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, \u003cem\u003eAuthorized Heritage\u003c\/em\u003e examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Coutts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887559328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887559327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Robert Coutts","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982632517887,"sku":"9780887559327","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6064cd9-3158-4390-b289-d8214526c0ed.jpg?v=1683262230","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/authorized-heritage-robert-coutts-9780887559327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}