Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891 9780773572638

Table of contents :
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, 1859–1871
8 Cohesion and Fracture in Saltspring Island Society
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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