Frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands.
Towns and cities at the farthest reaches of empire were crucial to
the settler colonial project. Yet the experiences of Indigenous
peoples in these urban frontiers have been overshadowed by
triumphant narratives of progress. This book explores the lives of
Indigenous peoples and settlers in two Pacific Rim cities -
Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia. Built on
Indigenous lands and overtaken by gold rushes, these cities emerged
between 1835 and 1871 in significantly different locations, yet
both became cross-cultural and segregated sites of empire. This
innovative study traces how these spaces, and the bodies in them,
were transformed, sometimes in violent ways, creating new spaces
and new polities.
Penelope Edmonds is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral
Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of
Melbourne.
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