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About the Book
• Winner, 2008 Clio Award for BC, Canadian Historical Association
The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location -- British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past -- and different types of evidence -- to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research.
About the Author(s)
William J. Turkel teaches history at the University of Western Ontario.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Putting Things in Their Place / ix
Graeme Wynn
Preface / xix
Acknowledgments / xxv
Part 1: Deep Time in the Present
1 Fish Lake / 3
2 Prosperity Gold / 44
Part 2: The Horizon of Experience
3 Mackenzie / 75
4 Grease Trails / 108
Part 3: Shadowed Ground
5 Converging towards “Banshee” / 139
6 Chilcotin War / 177
Afterword / 225
Appendices
A Glacial Time / 228
B Geological Time / 229
Glossary / 230
Notes / 284
Toponymic Index / 310
General Index / 314
Reviews
“William Turkel’s great achievement in this book is to show how once taken-for-granted accounts of geophysical processes, Aboriginal occupancy, and colonial settler society have now come to underpin sharply conflicting understandings of history.”
-- Julie Cruikshank, author of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
In this unorthodox and intriguing book, William Turkel uses the Chilcotin Plateau, an arid and sparsely settled region of west-central British Columbia, to ask a series of questions about how we acquire and use knowledge of the past.
...this is an engaging and rewarding book. Like much recent work in British Columbia history, it writes First Nations people into the general history of the province, a hugely important project for North American histroy more generally.
An amalgam of the material and the representational, the natural and the human, place allows Turkel to move some way toward transcending the old human-environment dichotomy that bedevils the writing of environmental history.
- James Murton, Environmental History Journal, Volume 12, Number 4, October 2007
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Environmental Studies
History
Geography
Archaeology
History > Canada
Native Studies
BC Studies
BC Studies > History
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