Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia [Paperback]

R. W. Sandwell (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here for the first time, decisively break this silence and challenge traditional readings of B.C. 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 coddling 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

While the rural sometimes gets lost in the dazzling array of topics and methodological approaches represented here, this book is often fun to read and serves as a delightful sampler of what happened 'belyond the city limits' in British Columbia. ...If subsequent research efforts ' beyond the city limits' are as well executed as are those depicted in this sampling ...then the history of British Columbia and Canada will be the richer for it. - Margaret Conrad, BC Studies Ken Favrholt’s article on agricultural settlement south of Kamloops does a wonderful job of explaining the presence of the old abandoned farm houses that dot the landscape on either side of Highway 5, and David Dendy’s account of codling moths in the Okanogan is a "must read" for anyone interested in the history of the provincial tree fruit industry or the problems facing the widely publicized sterile insect release program. [Jean Barman’s essay is clearly written and it manages to tackle a number of potentially contentious issues in a balanced and non-partisan manner. After reading Barman’s contribution you will no longer accept the arguments that all pioneering women were white, that academics are incapable of writing a coherent sentence, and that academic articles are categorically different from the articles that grace the pages of The Beaver or British Columbia Historical News. - Clint Evans, BC Historical News (Fall 2000)

About the Author

R.W. Sandwell has taught history at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: UBC Press (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0774806958
• ISBN-13: 978-0774806954
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,088,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)