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9780802083364

On the Edge of Empire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780802083364

  • ISBN10:

    0802083366

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

Perry examines the efforts of a loosely connected group of reformers to transform a colonial environment into one that more closely adhered to the practices of respectable, middle-class European society.

Author Biography

Adele Perry is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Analysing Gender and Race on the Edge of Empire 3(17)
`Poor Creatures are we without Our Wives': White Men and Homosocial Culture
20(28)
`The Prevailing Vice': Mixed-Race Relationships
48(31)
Bringing Order to the Backwoods: Regulating British Columbia's Homosocial Culture
79(18)
Marriage, Morals, and Segregation: Regulating Mixed-Race Relationships
97(27)
Land and Immigration, Gender and Race: Bringing White People to British Columbia
124(15)
`Fair Ones of a Purer Caste': Bringing White Women to British Columbia
139(28)
`An Unspeakable Benefit?': White Women in Colonial Society
167(27)
Conclusion: Gender, Race, and Our Years on the Edge of Empire 194(9)
Notes 203(48)
References 251(26)
Illustration Credits 277(2)
Index 279

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