Urbanizing frontiers
Subtitle: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities
By: Penelope Edmonds
Publisher: UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780774816212
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Extremities of empire : two settler-colonial cities in comparative perspective; title: Setter-colonial cities : a survey of bodies and spaces in transition; title: "This grand object" : building towns in Indigenous space (Melbourne, Port Phillip); title: First Nations space, protocolonial space (Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58); title: The imagined city and its dislocations : segregation, gender, and town camps (Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50); title: Narratives of race in the streetscape : fears of miscegenation and making white subjects (Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s); title: From bedlam to incorporation : First Nations, public space, and the emerging city (Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s); title: Nervous hybridity : bodies, spaces, and the displacements of Empire (Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71).