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Article: Resettlement of British Columbia: essays on colonialism and geographical change.
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- Labour/Le Travail
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 1997).
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the writing of British Columbia history has become increasingly sophisticated. Removed finally from the absurdities of "western exceptionalism," historians are now moving beyond the parochial search for difference and are placing this province's past within international contexts.
Cole Harris has been the well-spring of much of this renewed vigour. As supervisor to a number of excellent graduate students and as the co-editor of BC Studies, Harris has facilitated the development of new, more theoretically engaged scholarship. His own writing on British Columbia, cumulatively ...