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Rural History in British Columbia
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Ruth Sandwell
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$95.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 12/18/1998
ISBN: 9780774806947
$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 5/15/1999
ISBN: 9780774806954
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About the Book
• Winner, 2000 Clio Award - British Columbia, Canadian Historical Foundation
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.
About the Author(s)
Ruth Sandwell is an associate professor of the History Program in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia / R.W Sandwell
Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power
1. ‘Relating to the Country’: The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 / John Lutz
2. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement of British Columbia / Bruce Stadfeld
3. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System of Tariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 / Daniel P. Marshall
4. ‘Lessons in Living’: Film Propaganda and Progressive Education in Rural British Columbia, 1944 / Brian Low
Part 2: Land and Society
5. Reading the Land: Policy and Practice in the Settlement of Saltspring Island, 1859-91 / R.W. Sandwell
6. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hills around Kamloops, 1860-1960 / Ken Favrholdt
7. Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island / Richard Mackie
8. The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in British Columbia / David Dendy
Part 3: Gender and Society
9. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural Pioneer British Columbia / Jean Barman
10. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture in Up-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 / Adele Perry
11. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British Columbian Frontier / John Douglas Belshaw
12. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British Columbia / David Peterson del Mar
13. ‘You Would Have Had Your Pick’: Youth, Gender, and Jobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 / Tony F. Arruda
Notes
Contributors
Index
Reviews
While the rural sometimes gets lost in the dazzling array of topics and methodological approaches represented here, this book is often fun to read and serves as a delightful sampler of what happened 'belyond the city limits' in British Columbia. ...If subsequent research efforts ' beyond the city limits' are as well executed as are those depicted in this sampling ...then the history of British Columbia and Canada will be the richer for it.
- Margaret Conrad, BC Studies
Ken Favrholt’s article on agricultural settlement south of Kamloops does a wonderful job of explaining the presence of the old abandoned farm houses that dot the landscape on either side of Highway 5, and David Dendy’s account of codling moths in the Okanogan is a "must read" for anyone interested in the history of the provincial tree fruit industry or the problems facing the widely publicized sterile insect release program. [Jean] Barman’s essay is clearly written and it manages to tackle a number of potentially contentious issues in a balanced and non-partisan manner. After reading Barman’s contribution you will no longer accept the arguments that all pioneering women were white, that academics are incapable of writing a coherent sentence, and that academic articles are categorically different from the articles that grace the pages of The Beaver or British Columbia Historical News.
- Clint Evans, BC Historical News (Fall 2000)
Sample Chapter
A sample chapter of this title is not available at this time. For further information, please email info@ubcpress.ubc.ca.
Related Topics
History > Canada
History
BC Studies
BC Studies > History
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