Beyond the City Limits
Rural History in British Columbia
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Beyond the City Limits
Rural History in British Columbia
304 pages

Table of Contents
Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia / R.W Sandwell
Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power
1. ‘Relating to the Country’: The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 / John Lutz
2. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement of British Columbia / Bruce Stadfeld
3. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System of Tariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 / Daniel P. Marshall
4. ‘Lessons in Living’: Film Propaganda and Progressive Education in Rural British Columbia, 1944 / Brian Low
Part 2: Land and Society
5. Reading the Land: Policy and Practice in the Settlement of Saltspring Island, 1859-91 / R.W. Sandwell
6. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hills around Kamloops, 1860-1960 / Ken Favrholdt
7. Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island / Richard Mackie
8. The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in British Columbia / David Dendy
Part 3: Gender and Society
9. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural Pioneer British Columbia / Jean Barman
10. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture in Up-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 / Adele Perry
11. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British Columbian Frontier / John Douglas Belshaw
12. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British Columbia / David Peterson del Mar
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