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Urbanizing frontiers : Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities /

This book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities - Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edmonds, Penelope
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Extremities of empire : two settler-colonial cities in comparative perspective
  • Setter-colonial cities : a survey of bodies and spaces in transition
  • "This grand object" : building towns in Indigenous space (Melbourne, Port Phillip)
  • First Nations space, protocolonial space (Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58)
  • The imagined city and its dislocations : segregation, gender, and town camps (Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50)
  • Narratives of race in the streetscape : fears of miscegenation and making white subjects (Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s)
  • From bedlam to incorporation : First Nations, public space, and the emerging city (Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s)
  • Nervous hybridity : bodies, spaces, and the displacements of Empire (Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71).