The archive of place : unearthing the pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
"The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location - British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past - and different types of evidence - to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research."--Jacket
Congress
xxvi, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780774813761, 9780774813778, 0774813768, 0774813776
123892215
Foreword : putting things in their place / Graeme Wynn
pt. I. Deep time in the present
1. Fish Lake
2. Prosperity Gold
pt. 2. The horizon of experience
3. Mackenzie
4. Grease trails
pt. 3. Shadowed ground
5. Converging towards "Banshee"
6. Chilcotin war
App. A. Glacial time
App. B. Geological time
Limited edition of 400 copies