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Islands of truth : the imperial fashioning of Vancouver Island /
"In Islands of Truth Daniel Clayton examines a series of Western encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of la...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver [B.C.] :
UBC Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In Islands of Truth Daniel Clayton examines a series of Western encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0774807415 9780774807418 0774856254 9780774856256 |