{"product_id":"beyond-the-city-limits","title":"Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorians have not usually identified British Columbia as a rural\r\nprovince. B.C. historiography has been dominated by mining, logging,\r\nand fishing, and theorized within the context of large-scale,\r\nlaissez-faire capitalism and economic individualism. Silences in the\r\nhistorical record have exacerbated this situation and lent tacit\r\nsupport to the dominance of resource-based capitalism as the shaping\r\nforce in B.C. history.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003cem\u003eBeyond the City Limits,\u003c\/em\u003e all published here\r\nfor the first time, decisively break this silence and challenge\r\ntraditional readings of B.C. history. In this wide-ranging collection,\r\nR.W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who\r\nbring expertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken from\r\nsocial and political history, environmental studies, cultural\r\ngeography, and anthropology. They discuss such diverse topics as\r\nAboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and\r\nviolence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over\r\nOkanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resource\r\nextraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simply\r\nnot broad enough to adequately describe those who populated the\r\nprovince’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBy challenging the dominant urban-based and overwhelmingly\r\ncapitalist interpretation of the province’s history, the\r\nprovocative essays in \u003cem\u003eBeyond the City Limits\u003c\/em\u003e expand our\r\nunderstanding of what “rural” was and what it meant in the\r\nhistory of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46214024626386,"sku":"9780774806947","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f0d1d6cc-0899-4656-96f0-607bd0f1894c.jpg?v=1762705458","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/beyond-the-city-limits","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}