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Author Perry, Adele.

Title On the edge of empire : gender, race, and the making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 / Adele Perry
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Series Studies in gender and history
Studies in gender and history.
Contents Introduction: Analysing Gender and Race on the Edge of Empire -- 1. 'Poor Creatures Are We without Our Wives': White Men and Homosocial Culture -- 2. 'The Prevailing Vice': Mixed-Race Relationships -- 3. Bringing Order to the Backwoods: Regulating British Columbia's Homosocial Culture -- 4. Marriage, Morals, and Segregation: Regulating Mixed-Race Relationships -- 5. Land and Immigration, Gender and Race: Bringing White People to British Columbia -- 6. 'Fair Ones of a Purer Caste': Bringing White Women to British Columbia -- 7. 'An Unspeakable Benefit?': White Women in Colonial Society -- Conclusion: Gender, Race, and Our Years on the Edge of Empire
Summary Perry examines the efforts of a loosely connected group of reformers to transform a colonial environment into one that more closely adhered to the practices of respectable, middle-class European society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia
Sex role -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
Interracial marriage -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Men, White -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women, White -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
White people -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Gender Studies.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Colonization
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Interracial marriage
Sex role
Social conditions
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Canada.
SUBJECT British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
British Columbia -- Colonization
Subject British Columbia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001273368
ISBN 9781442688759
1442688750
9781442690875
1442690879
9780802047977
0802047971