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Autore |
Belshaw John Douglas |
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Titolo |
Becoming British Columbia [[electronic resource] ] : a population history / / John Douglas Belshaw |
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Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-74044-X |
9786612740442 |
0-7748-1547-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - British Columbia - Population - History |
British Columbia Population History |
British Columbia History |
British Columbia Population Statistics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-262) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Cradle to Grave: An Introduction -- Weddings, Funerals, Anything: The British Columbian Demographic Narrative -- The West We Have Lost: First Nations Depopulation -- Girl Meets Boys: Sex Ratios and Nuptiality -- Ahead by a Century: Fertility -- Strangers in Paradise: Immigration and the Experience of Diversity -- The Mourning After: Mortality -- The British Columbia Clearances: Some Conclusions -- Leading Settlements/Towns/Cities, BC, 1871-1951 -- Total Population, BC, 1867-2006 (Rounded to 000s) -- Age and Sex Distributions, BC, 1891-2001 -- Infant Mortality Rates (IMR), BC, 1922-2002 -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. He reveals that the province has a |
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long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia. |
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