9780774815468_cover Enlarge Cover
0 of 5
0 ratings
rated!
rated!
list price: $34.95
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook Hardcover
category: History
published: Jul 2009
ISBN:9780774815468
publisher: UBC Press

Becoming British Columbia

A Population History

by John Belshaw

tagged:
Description

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.

About the Author

John Belshaw

Contributor Notes

John Douglas Belshaw is a faculty member with Thompson Rivers University – Open Learning, a consultant to the post-secondary sector, a public scholar, and freelance writer. He is the author, co-author, or editor of five books on British Columbia history, including Becoming British Columbia (UBC Press, 2009).

Editorial Review

The evidence presented…forces us to consider the important conclusion that British Columbia throughout its history has been “at the extremes of western world demographic trends.” Becoming British Columbia deserves a wide readership.

— Labour/Le Travail, 65
X
Contacting facebook
Please wait...