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Review of Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island by Daniel W. Clayton
(2000)
Abstract
Daniel W. Clayton's Islands of Truth: The
Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island
is the most useful book on native-white
encounters on the Northwest Coast to
appear in nearly a quarter century,
since the University of British Columbia
Press published Robin Fisher's Contact
and Conflict: Indian-European Relations
in British Columbia, 1774-1890
(1977).
Keywords
- Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Discovery and exploration,
- Colonialism,
- Whites -- Canada -- Relations with Indians -- History
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter 2000
Comments
Published by the University of Washington
Citation Information
Peterson del Mar, David. Review of "Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island by Daniel W. Clayton," The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 92, No. 1 (Winter, 2000/2001), pp. 47-48