Sarah Carter has won top prize for academic history writing for her book Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies.
The Canadian Historical Association announced its 2017 prize winners including Ms. Carter, who was the recipient of the Governor General’s History Award for Scholarly Research: The Macdonald Prize.
Published by University of Manitoba Press in 2016, Ms. Carter’s book explores the lives of female landowners on the prairies, examining their goals, aspirations, and challenges.
It “depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.”
The award is presented annually by the Canadian Historical Association for the best academic Canadian history book. Ms. Carter will receive her award at a special ceremony at Rideau Hall in the fall.
You can look inside the book on Amazon.ca.
