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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peggy Brock |
ISBN: | 9780774820059 0774820055 |
OCLC Number: | 1027960894 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2012 (Canada) |
Description: | Online-Ressource (325 Seiten) |
Contents: | ChronologyIntroduction1 The Life and Times of Arthur Wellington Clah2 Keeping Account: The Diary3 The Fur Trade Era4 Chasing Gold5 Food Production and Wage Labour6 Land Matters7 Becoming a Christian8 Parading and Preaching9 Clah and the Missionaries10 The Changing World of Feasting11 Ligeex, Chief of the Gispaxlo'ots12 Old Age: The End of VoyagingConclusionAppendices:1 Clah's Trade Records for 24 and 25 December 18652 Key People in Clah's WorldNotesBibliographyIndex |
Abstract:
Drawing on a painstaking transcription of Clah's diaries, Peggy Brock offers a riveting portrait of a Tsimshian man and his encounters with colonialism.
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah is a striking book offering an on-the-ground viewpoint of colonialism as it evolved on the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada. -- Susan Neylan, Wilfrid Laurier University * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, V. 13, No 2, Fall 2012 * A fascinating account...Peggy Brock has made a truly significant contribution to our understanding of the history of the northwest coast in the nineteenth century. -- Robin Fisher, Mount Royal University * International Journal of Maritime History, Vol XXIV No 3 * Read more...
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