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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.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in gender and history
Studies in gender and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index.
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.
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia.
Frontier and pioneer life.
British Columbia.
Sex role -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Interracial marriage -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.
Interracial marriage.
Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Indians of North America.
Social conditions.
Men, White -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Men, White.
Women, White -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women, White.
British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.
British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
British Columbia -- Colonization.
Colonization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Other Form: Print version: Perry, Adele. On the edge of empire. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001273368
ISBN 9781442688759 (electronic book)
1442688750 (electronic book)
0802047971 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0802083366 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9780802083364