On the Edge of Empire : : Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 / / Adele Perry.
"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Analysing Gender and Race on the Edge of Empire
- Chapter 1. 'Poor Creatures Are We without Our Wives': White Men and Homosocial Culture
- Chapter 2. 'The Prevailing Vice': Mixed-Race Relationships
- Chapter 3. Bringing Order to the Backwoods: Regulating British Columbia's Homosocial Culture
- Chapter 4. Marriage, Morals, and Segregation: Regulating Mixed-Race Relationships
- Chapter 5. Land and Immigration, Gender and Race: Bringing White People to British Columbia
- Chapter 6. 'Fair Ones of a Purer Caste': Bringing White Women to British Columbia
- Chapter 7. 'An Unspeakable Benefit?': White Women in Colonial Society
- Conclusion: Gender, Race, and Our Years on the Edge of Empire
- Notes
- References
- Illustration credits
- Index