Contesting Rural Space

Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891

Автор: R.W. Sandwell

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Издател: McGill-Queen's University Press

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An intriguing mix of African-American, First Nation, Hawaiian, and European, the early residents of...

Информация за книгата

Автор

R.W. Sandwell

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

352

EAN

9780773529526

Enbook ID

04918439

Издател

McGill-Queen's University Press

Теглоt

500

Размери

152 x 229 x 23

Пълно описание

An intriguing mix of African-American, First Nation, Hawaiian, and European, the early residents of Saltspring Island were neither successful farmers nor full-time waged workers, neither squatters nor bona-fide landowners. "Contesting Rural Space" explores how these early settlers created and sustained a distinctive society, culture, and economy. In the late nineteenth century, residents claiming land on Saltspring Island walked a careful line between following mandatory homestead policies and manipulating these policies for their own purposes. The residents favoured security over risk and modest sufficiency over accumulation of wealth. Government land policies, however, were based on an idea of rural settlement as commercially successful family farms run by sober and respectable men. Settlers on Saltspring Island, deterred by the poor quality of farmland but encouraged by the variety of part-time, off-farm remunerative occupations, the temperate climate, First Nations cultural and economic practices, and the natural abundance of the Gulf Island environment, made their own choices about the appropriate uses of rural lands. R.W. Sandwell shows how the emerging culture differed from both urban society and ideals of rural society.

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