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Gunboat frontier :

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0774801751

(Number (ISBN

9780774801751

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Gunboat frontier :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

British maritime authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-90 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Barry M. Gough.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Vancouver :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of British Columbia Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1984.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 287 p., [16] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ;

Volume Designation

4

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

Bibliography: p. [267]-270.

Text of Note

Publisher description: Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marines, and ships of the Royal Navy on behalf of the colonial governments of Vancouver Island and British Columbia and, after 1871, of Canada. Barry Gough presents new historical evidence provided by the Admiralty Papers, an important source of information about nineteenth-century Northwest Coast Indian life. Drawing on these and other archival and governmental records, he chronicles encounters between the Royal Navy and the Indians over missions, piracies, Native slavery, liquor trafficking, and crimes against persons and property, leading to the final cases of 'gunboat diplomacy' used against local Indians in the late 1880s.

Great Britain.-- History.

Indians of North America-- British Columbia-- History.

Indians of North America-- Canada-- Government relations.

Indians, Treatment of-- British Columbia-- Pacific Coast.

British Columbia, History.

Great Britain, Colonies, America, Administration.

Pacific Coast (B.C.), History.

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Gough, Barry M.

Date of Transaction

20140203031532.0

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[Book]

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