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Nothing to Write Home About
- British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
Engelsk Hardback
Nothing to Write Home About
- British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
Engelsk Hardback

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In the context of surging interests in reconciliation and decolonization, settler colonialism increasingly occupies political, public, and academic conversations. Nothing to Write Home About is a detailed study of the settler colonial significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters written by dozens of correspondents, it offers insights into epistolary topics including trans-imperial family intimacy and conflict, settlers' everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and the importance of what correspondents chose not to write about. Analyzing both the letters' content and their conspicuous, loaded silences, Laura Ishiguro traces how Britons used the post to navigate the family separations integral to their migration and to understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. This book argues that these letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful, personal settler colonial order that continues to structure the province today.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
308
ISBN-13:
9780774838436
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0774838434
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2019
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
167mm
Forlag:
University of British Columbia Press
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge