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Working for Wildlife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Working for Wildlife

Foster shows how a small band of dedicated civil servants transformed their own goals of preserving endangered animals into active government policy. The definitive history of the beginnings of wildlife conservation in Canada.

Trading Beyond the Mountains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 447

Trading Beyond the Mountains

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.

Vox Lycei 1948-1949
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Vox Lycei 1948-1949

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Architecture Canada Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Architecture Canada Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Beyond the City Limits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Beyond the City Limits

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

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.

Contesting Clio's Craft
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Contesting Clio's Craft

This book offers innovative thoughts on present and future approaches to the study of the Canadian past. Moving beyond the political vs. social history debates that have dominated the field since the 1970s, these essays suggest novel questions and approaches while delving into recently overlooked subjects. The authors place a particular emphasis on international, transnational, and comparative approaches to the past. Essays cover such topics as the Atlantic World, oral history, postcolonialism, public history, historical periodization, Canada's place in the British Empire, and French-English relations. The art of history as a discipline and practice is also discussed. A must read for Canadia...

Traders' Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Traders' Tales

"This is the most original, most thoughtful piece of scholarship of our times on the fur trade of the Plateau."--WILLIAM R. SWAGERTY, University of Idaho.

The Real Thing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

The Real Thing

A biography of Canadian biologist, educator, and conservationist Ian McTaggart-Cowan.

The King's Harvest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

The King's Harvest

A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China's political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China's early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China's agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based on their ability to exploit the labor and resources of those who harnessed photosynthetic energy from domesticated plants and animals. Focusing on the state of Qin, Lander amalgamates abundant new scientific, archaeological, and excavated documentary sources to argue that the human domination of the central Yellow River region, and the rest of the planet, was made possible by the development of complex political structures that managed and expanded agroecosystems.

More Than Birds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

More Than Birds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-17
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

The fascinating development of natural history studies in North America is portrayed through the life stories of 22 naturalists. The hope is that once people personally encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation.