Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures and Maps
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Reading the Rural with a Microhistorical Eye
  • 1 Land Policies and the Agricultural Vision in British Columbia
  • 2 Settling Up the Wild Lands
  • 3 The Main Support of the Colony: How Pre-emptors Met Policy-Makers' Goals
  • 4 Commercial Farmers?
  • 5 Appropriating the Land System: Pre-emption Behaviour as Rural Culture
  • 6 Political Economy and Household Structure on Saltspring Island
  • ""7 The African-American Murders: Violence, Racism, and Community on Saltspring Island, 1859â€?1871""""8 Cohesion and Fracture in Saltspring Island Society""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""