Writing British Columbia History 1784 1958

Author : Chad Reimer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 1461902274

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Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958 by Chad Reimer Pdf

Captain James Cook first made contact with the area now known as British Columbia in 1778. The colonists who followed soon realized they needed a written history, both to justify their dispossession of Aboriginal peoples and to formulate an identity for a new settler society. Writing British Columbia History traces how Euro-Canadian historians took up this task, and struggled with the newness of colonial society and overlapping ties to the British Empire, the United States, and Canada. This exploration of the role of history writing in colonialism and nation building will appeal to anyone interested in the history of British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and history writing in Canada. Chad Reimer is an independent historian and author in Chilliwack, BC.

Author : Chad Reimer
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858977

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Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958 by Chad Reimer Pdf

Captain James Cook first made contact with the area now known as British Columbia in 1778. The colonists who followed soon realized they needed a written history, both to justify their dispossession of Aboriginal peoples and to formulate an identity for a new settler society. Writing British Columbia History traces how Euro-Canadian historians took up this task, and struggled with the newness of colonial society and overlapping ties to the British Empire, the United States, and Canada. This exploration of the role of history writing in colonialism and nation building will appeal to anyone interested in the history of British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and history writing in Canada.

Author : Ben Bradley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774834216

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British Columbia by the Road by Ben Bradley Pdf

In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes. Challenging the idea that the automobile offered travellers the freedom of the road and a view of unadulterated nature, Bradley shows that boosters, businessmen, conservationists, and public servants manipulated what drivers and passengers could and should view from the comfort of their vehicles. Although cars and roads promised freedom, they offered drivers a curated view of the landscape that shaped the province’s image in the eyes of residents and visitors alike.

Author : Kenton Storey
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774829502

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Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire by Kenton Storey Pdf

During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitting to this fear would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial superiority. In this fascinating book, Kenton Storey challenges the idea that a series of colonial crises in the mid-nineteenth century led to a decline in the popularity of humanitarianism across the British Empire. Instead, he demonstrates how colonial newspapers in New Zealand and on Vancouver Island appropriated humanitarian language as a means of justifying the expansion of settlers’ access to land, promoting racial segregation and allaying fears of potential Indigenous resistance.

Author : Wendy Wickwire
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774861540

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At the Bridge by Wendy Wickwire Pdf

At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. From his base at Spences Bridge, BC, Teit forged a participant-based anthropology that was far ahead of its time. Whereas his contemporaries, including famed anthropologist Franz Boas, studied Indigenous peoples as members of “dying cultures,” Teit worked with them as members of living cultures resisting colonial influence over their lives and lands. Whether recording stories, mapping place-names, or participating in the chiefs’ fight for fair treatment, he made their objectives his own. With his allies, he produced copious, meticulous records; an army of anthropologists could not have achieved a fraction of what he achieved in his short life. Wickwire’s beautifully crafted narrative accords Teit the status he deserves, consolidating his place as a leading and innovative anthropologist in his own right.

Author : Kenneth J. Panton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810875241

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Historical Dictionary of the British Empire by Kenneth J. Panton Pdf

For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth’s land surface and one-fifth of its population. Writers boasted that the sun never set on British possessions, which provided raw materials that, processed in British factories, could be re-exported as manufactured products to expanding colonial markets. The commercial and political might was not based on any grand strategic plan of territorial acquisition, however. The Empire grew piecemeal, shaped by the diplomatic, economic, and military circumstances of the times, and its speedy dismemberment in the mid-twentieth century was, similarly, a reaction to the realities of geopolitics in post-World War II conditions. Today the Empire has gone but it has left a legacy that remains of great significance in the modern world. The Historical Dictionary of the British Empire covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Britain.

Author : Adele Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037618

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Colonial Relations by Adele Perry Pdf

A new perspective on the nineteenth-century imperial world through one family's history across North America, the Caribbean and United Kingdom. Revealing how these figures demonstrate complicated historical trajectories of empire and nation, Adele Perry illustrates how gender, intimacy, and family were key to making and remaking imperial politics.

Author : Sarah Koenig
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Oregon Territory
ISBN : 9780300251005

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Providence and the Invention of American History by Sarah Koenig Pdf

Sarah Koenig traces the rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman's legend, revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that God is an active agent in human history and that historical work can reveal patterns of divine will. On the other hand is objective or scientific history, which arose initially in the pleas of Catholics and other racial and religious outsiders who resisted providentialists' pejorative descriptions of non-Protestants and nonwhites.

Author : Susan Roy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773547100

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These Mysterious People by Susan Roy Pdf

The story of how the Musqueam First Nation have used cultural objects to take control of their history and land.

Author : Susan Roy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773598935

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These Mysterious People, Second Edition by Susan Roy Pdf

Archaeologists studying human remains and burial sites of North America’s Indigenous peoples have discovered more than information about the beliefs and practices of cultures - they have also found controversy. These Mysterious People shows how Western ideas and attitudes about Indigenous peoples have transformed one culture’s ancestors, burial grounds, and possessions into another culture’s "specimens," "archaeological sites," and "ethnographic artifacts," in the process disassociating Natives from their own histories. Focusing on the Musqueam people and a contentious archaeological site in Vancouver, These Mysterious People details the relationship between the Musqueam and researchers from the late-nineteenth century to the present. Susan Roy traces the historical development of competing understandings of the past and reveals how the Musqueam First Nation used information derived from archaeological finds to assist the larger recognition of territorial rights. She also details the ways in which Musqueam legal and cultural expressions of their own history - such as land claim submissions, petitions, cultural displays, and testimonies - have challenged public accounts of Aboriginal occupation and helped to define Aboriginal rights in Canada An important and engaging examination of methods of historical representation, These Mysterious People analyzes the ways historical evidence, material culture, and places themselves have acquired legal and community authority.

Author : Antoinette Burton,Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474222990

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How Empire Shaped Us by Antoinette Burton,Dane Kennedy Pdf

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into the past? In seeking to answer these questions, the proposed volume brings together some of the leading figures in the field, historians of different generations, different nationalities, different methodological and theoretical perspectives and different ideological persuasions. Each addresses the relationship between their personal development as historians of empire and the larger forces and events that helped to shape their careers. The result is a book that investigates the connections between the past and the present, the private and the public, the professional practices of historians and the political environments within which they take shape. This intellectual genealogy of the recent historiography of empire will be of great value to anyone studying or researching in the field of imperial history.

Author : Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of History Nancy Janovicek,Catherine Carstairs
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774826211

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Feminist History in Canada by Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of History Nancy Janovicek,Catherine Carstairs Pdf

In the late 1970s, feminists urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, women's and gender historians continue to take up the challenge, not only to interrogate the idea of nation but also to place their work in a global perspective. This volume showcases the work of scholars who draw on critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women's political action. Taken together, these exciting new essays demonstrate the continued relevance of history informed by feminist perspectives.

Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442610613

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Commemorating Canada by Cecilia Morgan Pdf

Author : William J. Buxton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773559769

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Harold Innis on Peter Pond by William J. Buxton Pdf

Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. Harold Innis on Peter Pond comprises eight texts by Innis, including his 1930 biography of Pond as well as his writings on the explorer's myriad activities. The book also features a collection of eight letters exchanged between Innis and Florence Cannon, a descendent of Pond with a strong interest in her ancestor's life and times, and an unpublished 1932 article on Pond's 1773–75 activities as a fur trader on the upper Mississippi, written by Innis's former student R. Harvey Fleming. Situating Innis's writings on Pond in relation to his broader body of biographical work, Buxton interprets what these texts tell us about Innis's intellectual practice, historiography, and the writing of biography. The book explores how Innis's perspectives shifted with changing intellectual and political circumstances and shows that his advocacy of Pond as an unrecognized "father of confederation" challenged conventional views of Canadian nation-building. A critical edition of previously overlooked biographical texts, Harold Innis on Peter Pond traces what these writings disclose about the biographer's character and values even as they discuss their subject.

Author : Robert A.J. McDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774864749

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A Long Way to Paradise by Robert A.J. McDonald Pdf

The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics in Canada’s lotus land.