{"product_id":"9780774807425-islands-of-truth","title":"Islands of Truth","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Clayton here reviews a series of encounters by explorers, traders, and politicians with the territory and native people of Vancouver Island in the late-18th and early-19th centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIslands of Truth,\u003c\/em\u003e Daniel Clayton examines a series of encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the 1770s and 1850s, the Native people of Vancouver Island were engaged by three sets of forces that were of general importance in the history of Western overseas expansion: the West's scientific exploration of the world in the Age of Enlightenment; capitalist practices of exchange; and the geopolitics of nation-state rivalry. \u003cem\u003eIslands of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e discusses these developments, the geographies they worked through, and the stories about land, identity, and empire stemming from this period that have shaped understanding of British Columbia's past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClayton questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences. \u003cem\u003eIslands of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely, provocative, and vital contribution to post-colonial studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53596227240310,"sku":"9780774807425","price":29.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31390987.jpg?v=1732132154","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780774807425-islands-of-truth","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}