{"product_id":"the-archive-of-place-9780774813778","title":"The Archive of Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.\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":49404915843415,"sku":"9780774813778","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774813778.jpg?v=1730488039","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-archive-of-place-9780774813778","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}