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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmonds, Penelope.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Urban residence--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Urban residence--Pacific Area--History--19th century.

Urbanization--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Pacific Area--History--19th century.

Colonial cities--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Colonial cities.

Indians of North America--Urban residence--British Columbia--Victoria--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Aboriginal Australians--Urban residence--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History--19th century.

Aboriginal Australians.

Great Britain--Colonies--Race relations--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Victoria (B.C.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Victoria (B.C.).

Melbourne (Vic.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Melbourne (Vic.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 experiences 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, 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.

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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-302) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33526-3

9786613335265

9786613904584

0-7748-1623-6

OCLC:

758511888