{"product_id":"a-bounded-land-9780774864428","title":"A Bounded Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this beautifully crafted and written volume, Canada’s preeminent historical geographer traces how Canada’s geographical limitations have shaped the nature of its settler societies – from first contacts, to dispossession, to our current age of reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Bounded Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a guided tour through the work of a brilliant, insightful, and compassionate mind and body of work. -- James Murton * The Canadian Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the most informative, penetrating and best-written account that I have read on the topic. -- Jim Reynolds * The Advocate *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Bounded Land\u003c\/em\u003e brings new dimensions and reflections to the work of Cole Harris as a scholar. The themes turn on settlement, colonization, dispossession, re-settlement, and the concluding theme throws light on Indigenous displacement and theories of empire and decolonization.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Barry Gough * The Ormsby Review *\u003cbr\u003eCole Harris has produced an eloquent compilation of work on settler colonialism in Canada. -- Ken Favrholdt, Kamloops, BC * BC Studies, Issue 209 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a lot packed into this book ... [It] highlights the theoretical and practical policies that underwrote colonialism. In doing so, it helps to explain how the history of dispossession became inseparable from the rise of nation-states such as Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Benjamin Hoy * The Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003eIt is to Harris’s credit that the innovative assembly of spatial and social vignettes in \u003cem\u003eA Bounded Land \u003c\/em\u003eprompts our reflection on Indigenous and settler relations in colonial Canada. -- Grace Keng, Pennsylvania State University * University of Toronto Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eOverall, this book is not only a fitting capstone to an extroardinary career, but also an excellent primer for understanding Canada's settler colonial past. -- Ryan Hall, Colgate University * Pacific Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Early Encounters\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fraser Canyon Encountered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagining and Claiming the Land\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Early Settlements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcadia: Settling the Marshlands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Poverty and Helplessness in Petite-Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Settlement of Mono Township\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: The Architecture of Settlement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuropean Beginnings in the Northwest Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Overseas Simplification of Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreating Place in Early Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Reconfiguring British Columbia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Making of the Lower Mainland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Struggle with Distance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndigenous Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 5: Theorizing Settler Colonialism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking an Immigrant Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow Did Colonialism Dispossess?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript: The Boundaries of Settler Colonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes and Further Readings; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404946547031,"sku":"9780774864428","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774864428.jpg?v=1730488149","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-bounded-land-9780774864428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}