Adele Perry (Canada University of Manitoba)

Broschiertes Buch

Colonial Relations

Beschreibung

A new perspective on the nineteenth-century imperial world through one family's history across North America, the Caribbean and United Kingdom.

Autor

Adele Perry is Professor of History and Senior Fellow at St John's College, University of Manitoba. She has taught there since 2000 and held the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History from 2003 to 2014. Perry is the author of On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1846-1871 (2001), which won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the best book published on the history of British Columbia, co-won the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Prize, and was short-listed for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciencesè Raymond Klibanksy prize for the best English-language book in the humanities. On the Edge of Empire has been reprinted six times. Perry is also co-editor of three editions of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003, 2006, 2010). She has been awarded the Jensen-Miller prize for the best article in Western American Women's History and the Hilda Neatby Award awarded by the Canadian Committee on Women's History. Perry was co-chair of the 2014 Berkshires Conference on the History of Women. Since 2008 she has been book reviewer for the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781108440011
• ISBN-10: 1108440010
• Artikelnr.: 48892153