Beyond the city limits
Subtitle: rural history in British Columbia
By: edited by R.W. Sandwell.
Contributors: Sandwell, R. W. 1955-
Publisher: UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press; Univ of British Columbia Pr
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Sociology, Rural -- British Columbia -- History; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- British Columbia; Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia; British Columbia -- Rural conditions
Description: "The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here for the first time, challenge traditional readings of BC history. In this wide-ranging collection, R. W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who bring expertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken from social and political history, environmental studies, cultural geography, and anthropology.

They discuss such diverse topics as Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the codling moth over Okanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resource extraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simply not broad enough to adequately describe those who populated the province's history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.