Urbanizing frontiers : Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities

Summary: "Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The lives of Indigenous peoples in these urbanizing frontiers have been overshadowed by triumphant narratives of European progress.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774816229
ISBN: 0774816228
ISBN: 9780774816212
ISBN: 077481621X
ISBN: 9780774816236
ISBN: 0774816236
Physical Description: print
317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-302) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Extremities of empire : two settler-colonial cities in comparative perspective -- Setter-colonial cities : a survey of bodies and spaces in transition -- "This grand object" : building towns in Indigenous space (Melbourne, Port Phillip) -- First Nations space, protocolonial space (Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58) -- The imagined city and its dislocations : segregation, gender, and town camps (Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50) -- Narratives of race in the streetscape : fears of miscegenation and making white subjects (Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s) -- From bedlam to incorporation : First Nations, public space, and the emerging city (Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s) -- Nervous hybridity : bodies, spaces, and the displacements of Empire (Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71).