Beyond the city limits [[electronic resource] ] : rural history in British Columbia / / edited by R.W. Sandwell

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 971.1
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Rural - British Columbia - History; Agriculture - Social aspects - British Columbia; Frontier and pioneer life - British Columbia
• Soggetto geografico: British Columbia Rural conditions
• Altri autori: SandwellR. W <1955-> (Ruth Wells)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Introduction -- Exploring Relations of Power -- 'Relating to the Country': The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 -- Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement of British Columbia -- An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System of Tariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 -- 'Lessons in Living': Film Propaganda and Progressive Education in Rural British Columbia, 1944 -- Land and Society -- Negotiating Rural: Policy and Practice in the Settlement of Saltspring Island, 1859-91 -- Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hills around Kamloops, 1860-1960 -- Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island -- The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in British Columbia -- Gender and Society -- Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural Pioneer British Columbia -- Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture in Up-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 -- Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British Columbia Frontier -- Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British Columbia -- 'You Would Have Had Your Pick': Youth, Gender, and Jobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Historians have not usually identified British Columbia as a rural province. B.C. historiography has been dominated by mining, logging, and fishing, and theorized within the context of large-scale, laissez-faire capitalism and economic individualism. Silences in the historical record have exacerbated this situation and lent tacit support to the dominance of resource-based capitalism as the shaping force in B.C. history. The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here for the first time, decisively break this silence and challenge traditional readings of B.C. history. In this wide-ranging collection, R.W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who bring expertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken from social and political history, environmental studies, cultural geography, and anthropology. They discuss such diverse topics as Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resource extraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simply not broad enough to adequately describe those who populated the province's history. By challenging the dominant urban-based and overwhelmingly capitalist interpretation of the province's history, the provocative essays in Beyond the City Limits expand our understanding of what "rural" was and what it meant in the history of British Columbia.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the city limits
• ISBN: 1-283-13138-2; 9786613131386; 0-7748-5232-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791436303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II