A01=John D. Belshaw
A01=John Douglas Belshaw
Author_John D. Belshaw
Author_John Douglas Belshaw
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Product details
- ISBN 9780773524033
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2004
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture.
John Douglas Belshaw is on faculty at Thompson Rivers University - Open Learning, a consultant to the post-secondary sector, and the author of several books on BC history.
