{"product_id":"the-archive-of-place-9780774813761","title":"The Archive of Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Archive of Place\u003c\/em\u003e weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location  British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past  and different types of evidence  to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unorthodox and intriguing book, William Turkel uses the Chilcotin Plateau, an arid and sparsely settled region of west-central British Columbia, to ask a series of questions about how we acquire and use knowledge of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... This is an engaging and rewarding book. Like much recent work in British Columbia history, it writes First Nations people into the general history of the province, a hugely important project for North American histroy more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn amalgam of the material and the representational, the natural and the human, place allows Turkel to move some way toward transcending the old human-environment dichotomy that bedevils the writing of environmental history.\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Murton * Environmental History Journal, Volume 12, Number 4 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Putting Things in Their Place \/ \u003cem\u003eGraeme Wynn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Deep Time in the Present\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Fish Lake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Prosperity Gold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: The Horizon of Experience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Mackenzie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Grease Trails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Shadowed Ground\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Converging towards “Banshee”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Chilcotin War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary; Notes; Toponymic Index; General Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404915745111,"sku":"9780774813761","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774813761.jpg?v=1730488040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-archive-of-place-9780774813761","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}