Description

Book Synopsis
This sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Earliest Pages of History

2 Pioneers, Railways and Civilization: The Late Nineteenth Century

3 A Greater Britain on the Pacific: History in the Edwardian Age

4 The Domain of History: Judge Frederic Howay

5 A Professional Past: The University of British Columbia and Walter Sage

6 W. Kaye Lamb, Margaret Ormsby, and a First Generation of BC Historians

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography of Primary Sources

Index

Writing British Columbia History 17841958

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2010
      ISBN13: 9780774816458, 978-0774816458
      ISBN10: 0774816457
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 The Earliest Pages of History

      2 Pioneers, Railways and Civilization: The Late Nineteenth Century

      3 A Greater Britain on the Pacific: History in the Edwardian Age

      4 The Domain of History: Judge Frederic Howay

      5 A Professional Past: The University of British Columbia and Walter Sage

      6 W. Kaye Lamb, Margaret Ormsby, and a First Generation of BC Historians

      Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography of Primary Sources

      Index

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