Becoming British Columbia: A Population History of British Columbia
Belshaw · 2009
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"Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of this province. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspire with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress by examining how the province's Aboriginal population of as much as half a million was reduced by disease to fewer than 30,000 people in less than a century. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780774815451
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