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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809230103321

Autore

Harris Cole <1936->

Titolo

The resettlement of British Columbia : essays on colonialism and geographical change / / Cole Harris ; with cartography by Eric Leinberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, BC, : UBC Press, c1997

ISBN

0-7748-5408-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 314 p. : ill., maps ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

971.1

Soggetti

Indians of North America - British Columbia - History

Human geography - British Columbia

British Columbia History

British Columbia Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia -- 2 Strategies of Power in the Cordilleran Fur Trade -- 3 The Making of the Lower Mainland -- 4 The Fraser Canyon Encountered -- 5 A Population Geography of British Columbia in 1881 -- 6 The Struggle with Distance -- 7 Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak -- 8 Farming and Rural Life -- 9 Making an Immigrant Society -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.