Islands of Truth
The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3982579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tina Loo |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Pages | 219 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island, D Clayton, 2000 |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25149122 |
| OpenAlex | W2073797767 |
| Language | EN |
This text reviews encounters by explorers, traders, and politicians with the territory and Native people of Vancouver Island. It questions premises underlying much of BC historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Canadian Identity and History · History
Visões Sobre a Geografia E O Pós-Colonialismo Conversas Com Felix Driver, David Harvey E Paul Claval
Nature, space and distances in an imperial boundary network
Les cérémonies de la mesure
Flood-Risk Management, Mapping, and Planning
Caricaturing Colonial Space
The Limits of Liberalism
With Reserves
A Companion to Social Geography
Space and Government
Material Geographies and Postcolonialism
“On the Raggedy Edge of Risk”
Intimate Publics
For the Love of a Good Dog
“There Is a Land Where Everything Is Pure”
Space, Knowledge and Power
From "the hot-bed of vice" to the "good and well-ordered Christian home
Snapshots of a Moving Target”
From Cape Breton to Vancouver Island
Canoes, Modernity, and the Colonial Imagining of Progress
Ontological Destruction
Strange beasts of the sea”
Placing Joseph Banks in the North Pacific
Ships in the night
Producing Provincial Space
Political geography
Eighteenth-century geography
The social nature of map making in the Scottish enlightenment c .1682‐ c .1832
Geographia's pen
From dispossession to decolonization
Who's counting? Spatial politics, ecocolonisation and the politics of calculation in B oundary B ay
Decolonizing Urban Political Ecologies
Between Now and Future Sovereignty
Currents, visions and voyages
Geographies of toponymic inscription
How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire
Unsettling Settler Belonging
On mapping and its afterlife
Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning
Rethinking expeditions
Returning to the Scene of the Crime
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |