Description
Book SynopsisTimely, provocative, and a vital contribution to post-colonial studies, this book questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences.
Trade ReviewIn effect, Clayton has produced in this assiduously researched and thoroughly annotated book not just a geographical but, more obviously, a sociological history of white/Native contact, conflict, and eventual Native suppression... One can be grateful for Clayton’s provision of so much information, given his goals, and for a bibliography which will prove a valuable resource for future researchers. -- Bryan N.S. Gooch * Canadian Literature *
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Spaces of European Exploration Introduction
1 Captain Cook, the Enlightenment, and Symbolic Violence
2 Successful Intercourse Was Had with the Natives?
3 Captain Cook and the Spaces of Contact at Nootka Sound
4 Cook Books
5 Histories, Genealogies, and Spaces of the Other
Part 2: Geographies of Capital Introduction
6 The Conflictual Economy of Truth of the Maritime Fur Trade
7 Native Power and Commercial Contact at Nootka Sound
8 The Spatial Politics of Exchange at Clayoquot Sound
9 Regional Geographies of Accommodation and Appropriation
Part 3: Circulating Knowledge and Power Introduction
10 The Ledger, the Map, and British Imperial Vision
11 Circumscribing Vancouver Island
12 Delineating the Oregon Territory
13 Mythical Localities
14 Conclusion: The Loss of Locality
Notes; Bibliography; Index
