Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia

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 theprovince’s history.