Beyond the City Limits : Rural History in British Columbia.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia -- Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power -- 1 'Relating to the Country': The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 -- 2 Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement of British Columbia -- 3 An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System of Tariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 -- 4 'Lessons in Living': Film Propaganda and Progressive Education in Rural British Columbia, 1944 -- Part 2: Land and Society -- 5 Negotiating Rural: Policy and Practice in the Settlement of Saltspring Island, 1859-91 -- 6 Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hills around Kamloops, 1860-1960 -- 7 Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island -- 8 The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in British Columbia -- Part 3: Gender and Society -- 9 Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural Pioneer British Columbia -- 10 Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture in Up-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 -- 11 Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British Columbia Frontier -- 12 Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British Columbia -- 13 'You Would Have Had Your Pick': Youth, Gender, and Jobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This wide-ranging collection draws together a distinguished group of contributors to discuss Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists.

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