Gunboat frontier : British maritime authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-90 / / Barry M. Gough

• Autore: Gough Barry M
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, 1984
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
• Disciplina: 971.1/00497
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - British Columbia - History; Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations
• Soggetto geografico: British Columbia History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p. [267]-270 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Company and Colony -- Dwellers Along the Shore -- Tide of Empire -- "This Miserable Affair" -- The Smouldering Volcano -- Putting Out Pires -- Policy Making -- Of Slaves and Liquor -- Among the Vikings of the North Pacific -- Piracy and Punishment -- Policing the Passage -- The Pulls of Alaska -- Extending the Frontier -- The "Customary Authority" Under Dominion Auspices -- At Heaven's Command -- New Zones of Influence: Nass, Kimsquit, and Skeena -- Retrospect -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marines, and ships of the Royal Navy on behalf of the colonial governments of Vancouver Island and British Columbia and, after 1871, of Canada. Barry Gough presents new historical evidence provided by the Admiralty Papers, an important source of information about nineteenth-century Northwest Coast Indian life. Drawing on these and other archival and governmental records, he chronicles encounters between the Royal Navy and the Indians over missions, piracies, Native slavery, liquor trafficking and crimes against persons and property, leading to the final cases of 'gunboat diplomacy' used against local Indians in the late 1880s.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gunboat frontier
• ISBN: 1-283-22546-8; 9786613225467; 0-7748-5399-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810634603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ; ; 4.