"The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here for the first time, challenge traditional readings of BC history. In this wide-ranging collection, R. W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who bring expertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken from social and political history, environmental studies, cultural geography, and anthropology. They discuss such diverse topics as Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the codling moth over Okanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resource extraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simply not broad enough to adequately describe those who populated the province's history." --Book Jacket

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Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia / R.WSandwell Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power1. ‘Relating to the Country’: The Lekwammen and theExtension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 / John Lutz2. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement ofBritish Columbia / Bruce Stadfeld3. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System ofTariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 / Daniel P. Marshall4. ‘Lessons in Living’: Film Propaganda and ProgressiveEducation in Rural British Columbia, 1944 / Brian Low Part 2: Land and Society5. Reading the Land: Policy and Practice in the Settlement ofSaltspring Island, 1859-91 / R.W. Sandwell6. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hillsaround Kamloops, 1860-1960 / Ken Favrholdt7. Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island/ Richard Mackie8. The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in BritishColumbia / David Dendy Part 3: Gender and Society9. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters inRural Pioneer British Columbia / Jean Barman10. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture inUp-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 / Adele Perry11. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British ColumbianFrontier / John Douglas Belshaw12. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern BritishColumbia / David Peterson del Mar13. ‘You Would Have Had Your Pick’: Youth, Gender, andJobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 / Tony F.Arruda NotesContributorsIndex