{"product_id":"beyond-the-city-limits","title":"Beyond the City Limits","description":"\u003cmeta name=\"generator\" content=\"HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org\"\u003e\u003ctitle\u003e\u003c\/title\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians have not usually identified British Columbia as a ruralprovince. B.C. historiography has been dominated by mining, logging,and fishing, and theorized within the context of large-scale,laissez-faire capitalism and economic individualism. Silences in thehistorical record have exacerbated this situation and lent tacitsupport to the dominance of resource-based capitalism as the shapingforce in B.C. history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003cem\u003eBeyond the City Limits,\u003c\/em\u003e all published herefor the first time, decisively break this silence and challengetraditional readings of B.C. history. In this wide-ranging collection,R.W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors whobring expertise, 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 theprovince’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy challenging the dominant urban-based and overwhelminglycapitalist interpretation of the province’s history, theprovocative essays in \u003cem\u003eBeyond the City Limits\u003c\/em\u003e expand ourunderstanding of what “rural” was and what it meant in thehistory of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"R.W. Sandwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616297771388,"sku":"9780774806947","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774806947.jpg?v=1727873087","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-the-city-limits","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}