{"product_id":"urbanizing-frontiers-9780774816212","title":"Urbanizing Frontiers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities  Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUrbanizing Frontiers\u003c\/em\u003e is a fine example of comparative colonial history. This sort of history requires research in multiple locations often separated by vast distances, engagement with the historiographical contours of at least two countries, and a conceptual language to bridge them. ...[it shows] rich and compelling evidence or the insightful analysis which is developed with reference to postcolonial, feminist and spatial theory.... \u003cem\u003eUrbanizing Frontiers\u003c\/em\u003e is a sophisticated monograph, carefully crafted and impressive in scope. It deserves a wide readership in indigenous studies, colonial history, urban history and historical geography, while also making an important and timely contribution to both Australian and Canadian history.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Fances Steel, University of Wollongong * Aboriginal History, Vol 35 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmonds argues for a redefinition of perhaps the most contested idea in settler colonial historiography: that of the frontier….and offers a devastating indictment of the urban biopolitics of settler colonialism and their effect on Indigenous society.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Edward Cavanagh, University of the Witwatersrand * Settler Colonial Studies, Issue 1 *\u003cbr\u003eTaking as her case studies Victoria on Canada’s west coast and Melbourne, Australia, Edmonds makes a compelling case for the ways in which urban and indigenous histories are deeply entwined..[with] insightful placements of the potlatch and the corroboree alongside the grid and the picturesque ... the urban stories she tells are rich, complex, and densely critical ... \u003cem\u003eUrbanizing Frontiers\u003c\/em\u003e is an outstanding contribution to the nascent literature on urban colonialism and indigenous peoples. -- Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia * \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an important book, a must read not only for scholars in Native studies, but for urban historians as well. Indeed, I found myself excitingly quoting from it and footnoting it while preparing a manuscript before I could sit down and systematically read it for the purposes of this review ... One of the strengths of this book, indeed, is Edmonds’ nuanced analysis of gender. We not only see indigenous women in a wide variety of roles in both places from oyster traders to victims of sexual abuse, we also see how critical gender was in the discursive construction of place -- Jay Gitlin, Yale University * \u003ci\u003eAustralian Historical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUrbanizing Frontiers\u003c\/em\u003e sheds much-needed light on the spatial mobility of the developing settler colonial city where ‘mutual, albeit uneven, interactions, of colonization and Indigenization were, for a short time part of the tenor of the early settler-colonial landscape’. Edmonds is truly interdisciplinary in her research and conceptualisation of these two sites and she makes an important contribution to the understanding of Australian and Canadian history, as well as the other discourses of colonialism, race and urban geography. -- Tiffany Shellam * \u003ci\u003eHistory Australia\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent work of comparative colonial history...the casual reader of British Columbian or Australian history as well as the academic of urban studies, policy, urban geography, colonial, gender and race history should consider reading this book. -- Omeasoo Butt, University of Saskatchewan * Canadian Journal of History \/ Annales canadiennes d'histoire, Vol. XLVlI, Autumn\/automne 2012 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Extremities of Empire: Two Settler-Colonial Cities in Comparative Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Settler-Colonial Cities: A Survey of Bodies and Spaces in Transition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 \"This Grand Object\": Building Towns in Indigenous Space [Melbourne, Port Phillip]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 First Nations Space, Protocolonial Space [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Imagined City and Its Dislocations: Segregation, Gender, and Town Camps [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Narratives of Race in the Streetscape: Fears of Miscegenation and Making White Subjects [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 From Bedlam to Incorporation: First Nations Peoples, Public Space, and the Emerging City [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire [Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138154496343,"sku":"9780774816212","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774816212.jpg?v=1751918224","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urbanizing-frontiers-9780774816212","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}