Adele Perry: 2 books
Colonial Relations
The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant...
On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2001
"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial...