{"product_id":"white-settler-reserve-9780774831598","title":"White Settler Reserve","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative history of a reserve for Icelandic settlers connects the dots between immigration and Indigenous dispossession in western Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003eWhite Settler Reserve\u003c\/i\u003e] highlights the early and ongoing interactions between the Icelanders and Indigenous peoples, beginning with the pre-existing land claims and including the devastating impact of smallpox, adding greater depth and context to the history of New Iceland and to the history of the settlement of the Canadian Northwest.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kate MacFarlane, Parks Canada * Manitoba History Journal, Issue 88 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Settler Reserve\u003c\/em\u003e contextualizes the emigrant story, and triangulates what is sometimes simplified into a binary relationship between settlers and indigenous peoples, lands and humans. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Settler Reserve \u003c\/i\u003eexposes one of those corners of Canadiana omitted from official records and federal observances of this 150th anniversary of Confederation. It is shocking and intriguing, the best kind of history.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Settler Reserve \u003c\/i\u003eis a sophisticated and persuasive consideration of the interplay of liberalism, colonization, and emigration, and of that “dialectic process between the centre and the periphery” (p.191) that was an integral part of the iconic story of the settlement of the Canadian West.\" \u003c\/p\u003e -- Jane Errington * Histoire sociale\/Social history, Volume 52, Numéro\/Number 106 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern Canada’s bloc settlements are an understudied aspect of Canadian land policies in the nineteenth century, making Ryan Eyford’s study of New Iceland in Manitoba a welcome addition to the field.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sheila McManus, University of Lethbridge * Pacific Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eA particularly powerful aspect of \u003cem\u003eWhite Settler Reserve \u003c\/em\u003eis the richly detailed portrait it paints of the \"First New Icelanders\" who formed communities in this colonization reserve. By bringing their names, experiences, and struggles to this new audience, Eyford has helped to ensure their stories will not be forgotten. -- Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker * Ormsby Review, March 2017 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Northern Dreamlands: Canadian Expansionism and Icelandic Migration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Broken Townships: Colonization Reserves and the Dominion Lands System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The First New Icelanders: Family Migration and the Formation of a Reserve Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Quarantined within a New Order: Smallpox and the Spatial Practices of Colonization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 “Principal Projector of the Colony”: The Turbulent Career of John Taylor, Icelandic Agent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Becoming British Subjects: Municipal Government and Citizenship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 “Freemen Serving No Overlord”: Debt, Self-Reliance, and Liberty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes; Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404933964119,"sku":"9780774831598","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774831598.jpg?v=1730488105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/white-settler-reserve-9780774831598","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}