Becoming British Columbia

A Population History

von John Belshaw

300 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. 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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780774815468
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2009
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press