Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Edmonds, Penelope

Publication

• Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
• ©2010

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Details

Description

317 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The lives of Indigenous peoples in these urbanizing frontiers have been overshadowed by triumphant narratives of European progress.
• Urbanizing Frontiers explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and newcomers in two Pacific Rim cities - Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia. Built on Indigenous lands and overtaken by gold rushes, these cities emerged between 1835 and 1871 in significantly different locations, yet both became cross-cultural and ultimately segregated sites of empire. Victoria's population came to include large numbers of Indigenous peoples, a legacy of the fur trade, whereas Melbourne's Indigenous population was far smaller. An explanation lies in the structural features of the fur trade versus pastoralism, and the ensuing politics of race that played out at the spatial, imaginative, social, and legal levels, where bodies and spaces were rapidly transformed, sometimes in violent ways.
• This innovative, interdisciplinary study reconceptualizes the frontier as urbanizing space by charting the development of the settler-colonial city and exploring the lives of the newcomers, Indigenous peoples, and mixed-race peoples who, in turn, shaped its development. It will be of interest to students and scholars of colonialism, urbanism, Indigenous studies, transnational history, cultural geography, and Pacific Rim studies."--pub. desc.

Subject

• Sainsbury, Brendan
• Großbritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main
• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1830-1880
• Urban Indigenous peoples > Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century
• Urban Indigenous peoples > Pacific Area > History > 19th century
• Urbanization > Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century
• Urbanization > Pacific Area > History > 19th century
• Colonial cities > Pacific Area > Case studies
• Urban Indians > North America > History > 19th century
• Urban Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Melbourne (Vic.) > History > 19th century
• Urban Indigenous peoples > Great Britain > Colonies
• Urbanization > Great Britain > Colonies
• Colonial cities > History > Case studies
• Indigenous peoples > Great Britain > Colonies
• Urban Indians > History > 19th century
• Urban Indians > British Columbia > Victoria > History > 19th century
• Native peoples > Urban residence > History > British Columbia > Victoria > 19th century
• Autochtones > Habitat urbain > Colonies. > Grande-Bretagne
• Urbanisation > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies
• Villes coloniales > Histoire > Études de cas
• Autochtones > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies
• Peuples autochtones > Habitat urbain > Histoire > Colombie-Britannique > Victoria > 19e siècle
• Australiens (Aborigènes) > Habitat urbain > Histoire > Australie > Melbourne (Vict.) > 19e siècle
• Autochtones > Habitat urbain > Colonies > Histoire > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
• Autochtones > Habitat urbain > Histoire > Pacifique, Région du > 19e siècle
• Urbanisation > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Urbanisation > Pacifique, Région du > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Villes coloniales > Pacifique, Région du > Études de cas
• Peuples autochtones > Habitat urbain > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Indigenous peoples > British colonies
• Urban Indians
• Urban Aboriginal Australians
• British colonies
• Colonial cities
• Urban Indigenous peoples
• Race relations
• Urbanization
• Kolonialstadt
• Siedlungsgrenze
• Siedlungspolitik
• Indigenes Volk
• Iwi taketake
• Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations > History > 19th century
• Victoria (B.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century
• Melbourne (Vic.) > Race relations > History > 19th century
• Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations
• Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Relations raciales
• Victoria (C.-B.) > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Melbourne (Vict.) > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle
• North America
• Great Britain
• British Columbia > Victoria
• Pacific Area
• Victoria > Melbourne
• Australien
• Pazifischer Raum

Genre/Form

• Ethnographies
• Case studies
• History
• Études de cas.
• Études ethnographiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-302) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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).

ISBN

• 9780774816229
• 0774816228
• 9780774816212
• 077481621X
• 9780774816236
• 0774816236

LCCN

2010292667

OCLC

• 436844431
• SCSB-11524354

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library