Beyond the City Limits

Rural History in British Columbia
Herausgeber: Sandwell, R W

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Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging collection draws together a distinguished group of contributors to discuss Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780774806947
• ISBN-10: 077480694X
• Artikelnr.: 55158034

Autorenporträt

R.W. Sandwell has taught history at Simon FraserUniversity and the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia / R.WSandwell
 
Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power
1. 'Relating to the Country': The Lekwammen and theExtension of European
Settlement, 1843-1911 / John Lutz
2. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement ofBritish
Columbia / Bruce Stadfeld
3. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System ofTariffs
to British Columbia, 1871-4 / Daniel P. Marshall
4. 'Lessons in Living': Film Propaganda and ProgressiveEducation in Rural
British Columbia, 1944 / Brian Low
 
Part 2: Land and Society
5. Reading the Land: Policy and Practice in the Settlement ofSaltspring
Island, 1859-91 / R.W. Sandwell
6. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hillsaround
Kamloops, 1860-1960 / Ken Favrholdt
7. Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island/
Richard Mackie
8. The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in BritishColumbia /
David Dendy
 
Part 3: Gender and Society
9. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters inRural
Pioneer British Columbia / Jean Barman
10. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture
inUp-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 / Adele Perry
11. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British ColumbianFrontier
/ John Douglas Belshaw
12. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern BritishColumbia
/ David Peterson del Mar
13. 'You Would Have Had Your Pick': Youth, Gender, andJobs in Williams
Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 / Tony F.Arruda
 
Notes
Contributors
Index