John D Belshaw

(Author)

Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Classvolume 215Hardcover, 17 October 2002

Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Classvolume 215
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Part of Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History; Series One
Print Length
384 pages
Language
English
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date Published
17 Oct 2002
ISBN-10
0773524029
ISBN-13
9780773524026

Description

In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture.

Product Details

Author:
John D Belshaw
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
17 October 2002
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm
Genre:
Canadian
ISBN-10:
0773524029
ISBN-13:
9780773524026
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Weight:
349.27 gm

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