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On the edge of empire : gender, race, and the making of British Columbia, 1849-1871  Cover Image Book Book

On the edge of empire : gender, race, and the making of British Columbia, 1849-1871

Perry, Adele. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780802083364
  • ISBN: 0802047971 (bound)
  • ISBN: 0802083366 (pbk.
  • ISBN: 9780802083364 (sc.) :
  • ISBN: 0802083366 (sc.) :
  • ISBN: 0802047971 (cloth
  • Physical Description: viii, 286 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-276) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Analysing Gender and Race on the Edge of Empire -- 1. 'Poor Creatures Are We without Our Wives': White Men and Homosocial Culture -- 2. 'The Prevailing Vice': Mixed-Race Relationships -- 3. Bringing Order to the Backwoods: Regulating British Columbia's Homosocial Culture -- 4. Marriage, Morals, and Segregation: Regulating Mixed-Race Relationships -- 5. Land and Immigration, Gender and Race: Bringing White People to British Columbia -- 6. 'Fair Ones of a Purer Caste': Bringing White Women to British Columbia -- 7. 'An Unspeakable Benefit?': White Women in Colonial Society -- Conclusion: Gender, Race, and Our Years on the Edge of Empire.
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia
Interracial marriage -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
Sex role -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
Men, White -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women, White -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
British Columbia -- Colonization
British Columbia -- History -- 1849-1871
British Columbia -- Social conditions -- To 1871
British Columbia -- Colonization

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Adele Perry is a professor of History and senior fellow at St. John’s College, University of Manitoba.

Adele Perry is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba.

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