Edmonds, Penelope.

Urbanizing frontiers Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities / [electronic resource] Penelope Edmonds. - Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010. - 317 p. : ill., maps.

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

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).


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Indigenous peoples--Urban residence--Colonies--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Indigenous peoples--Urban residence--History--Pacific Area--19th century.
Urbanization--Colonies--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Urbanization--History--Pacific Area--19th century.
Colonial cities--Pacific Area--Case studies.
Indians of North America--Urban residence--History--British Columbia--Victoria--19th century.
Aboriginal Australians--Urban residence--History--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--19th century.


Great Britain--Colonies--Race relations--History--19th century.
Victoria (B.C.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Race relations--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

JV1035 / .E36 2010

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