pt. 1. Spaces of European exploration -- pt. 2. Geographies of capital -- pt. 3. Circulating knowledge and power
Summary
"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
