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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edmonds, Penelope
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Urban residence > Great Britain > Colonies.
Urbanization > Great Britain > Colonies.
Colonial cities > History > Case studies.
Indigenous peoples > Great Britain > Colonies.
Indians of North America > Urban residence > British Columbia > Victoria > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Urban residence > Australia > Melbourne (Vic.) > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations.
Victoria (B.C.) > History > 19th century.
Melbourne (Vic.) > History > 19th century.
Table of 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]

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