Beyond the City Limits

The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here forthe first time, decisively break this silence and challenge traditionalreadings of B.C. history. In this wide-ranging collection, R.W.Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who bringexpertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken fromsocial and political history, environmental studies, culturalgeography, and anthropology. They discuss such diverse topics asAboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping andviolence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth overOkanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resourceextraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simplynot broad enough to adequately describe those who populated theprovinces history.