Contesting Rural Space : Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures and Maps -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading the Rural with a Microhistorical Eye -- 1 Land Policies and the Agricultural Vision in British Columbia -- 2 Settling Up the Wild Lands -- 3 The Main Support of the Colony: How Pre-emptors Met Policy-Makers' Goals -- 4 Commercial Farmers? -- 5 Appropriating the Land System: Pre-emption Behaviour as Rural Culture -- 6 Political Economy and Household Structure on Saltspring Island -- 7 The African-American Murders: Violence, Racism, and Community on Saltspring Island, 1859-1871 -- 8 Cohesion and Fracture in Saltspring Island Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

A micro-history of Saltspring Island in the early years of resettlement.

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