Urbanizing frontiers : indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific rim cities

Edmonds, Penelope. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774816212
ISBN: 077481621X
Physical Description: print
317 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Extremities of Empire: Two Settler-Colonial Cities in Comparative Perspective -- 2. Settler-Colonial Cities: A Survey of Bodies and Spaces in Transition -- 3. "This Grand Object": Building Towns in Indigenous Space [Melbourne, Port Phillip] -- 4. First Nations Space, Protocolonial Space [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58] -- 5. Imagined City and Its Dislocations: Segregation, Gender, and Town Camps [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50] -- 6. Narratives of Race in the Streetscape: Fears of Miscegenation and Making White Subjects [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s] -- 7. From Bedlam to Incorporation: First Nations, Public Space, and the Emerging City [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s] -- 8. Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire [Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71].