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Author:

Edmonds, Penelope.

Title:

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

Publisher:

UBC Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

317 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indigenous peoples--Colonies--Colonies--Great Britain.
Urbanization--Colonies--Great Britain.
Colonial cities--History--Case studies.
Indigenous peoples--Great Britain--Colonies.
Great Britain--Race relations.--Race relations.
Indians of North America--History--Victoria--Victoria--History--19th century.
Aboriginal Australians--History--Melbourne (Vic.)--Melbourne (Vic.)--History--19th century.
Victoria (B.C.)--History--19th century.
Melbourne (Vic.)--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-302) and index.

Contents:

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]

ISBN:

077481621X
9780774816212

OCLC:

(OCoLC)436844431

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)