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Book SynopsisIn this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after the arrival of European settlers.
Trade ReviewThe Resettlement of British Columbia, analyzing the historical geography of distance, disease, and multiculturalism, demonstrates how elegantly and gracefully the social sciences can be written. -- W.H. New * Canadian Literature *
An engaging provocative, introduction to the early history of the province that only someone of {Harris's] experience and ability could produce ...
The Resettlement of British Columbia is a fine book. Full of wonderful insights and candid observations, it offers a nuanced look at the history of Canada's Pacific province ... What distinguishes the collection, however, is Harris's challenge to the reader to re-think some common assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes. -- Bill Waiser * Western Historical Quarterly *
This is an important book, characterized by its broad, sometimes breath-taking, intellectual and empirical sweep ... a provocative and important book by someone who has given a great deal of thought to the relationship between land and power in Canada. -- Tina Loo * BC Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia
2 Strategies of Power in the Cordilleran Fur Trade
3 The Making of the Lower Mainland
4 The Fraser Canyon Encountered
5 A Population Geography of British Columbia in 1881 / with Robert Galois
6 The Struggle with Distance
7 Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak
8 Farming and Rural Life / with David Demeritt
9 Making an Immigrant Society
