As happened in other parts of North America, the first explorers and settlers of British Columbia thought they'd arrived in a place without a history. Independent historian Reimer shows how Euro-Canadian historians created a written history for British Columbia in order to justify whites' dispossession of the original inhabitants and create an identity for the new settler society. The author shows how amateur and professional historians defined British Columbia as part of a global British Empire, incorporated the province into an expanding Anglo-Saxon civilization, and consciously wrote it into the empire of history itself. This account of how history was used to legitimize one society at the expense of others should appeal to anyone interested in the history of British Columbia or Pacific Northwest. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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ISBN:9780774816441
ISBN:9780774816458 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print [ix], 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher:Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-200) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Earliest Pages of History -- 2. Pioneers, Railways, and Civilization: The Late Nineteenth Century -- 3. Greater Britain on the Pacific: History in the Edwardian Age -- 4. Domain of History: Judge Frederic Howay -- 5. Professional Past: The University of British Columbia and Walter Sage -- 6. W. Kaye Lamb, Margaret Ormsby, and a First Generation of BC Historians.
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