Jean Barman
Author of The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
About the Author
Jean Barman is professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and the author of Abenaki Daring.
Works by Jean Barman
Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1: The Legacy (Nakoda Institute Occasional Papers, Vol 2) (1986) 27 copies
Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point (2005) 16 copies
On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (2020) 12 copies
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This is a very good introduction to British Columbia's history especially because of the great photos. I enjoyed the first two-thirds, but there was too much post-WWII and business-related stuff for me.
Jean Barman's The West Beyond the West is a good and readable introduction to British Columbia's history. It covers all the main bases, from economic to social to labour history; the only deficient area is poltical history.
The book's main thrust is just how disconnected from the province is from the rest of the nation-state is it a part of. British Columbia became a province of Canada so that it wouldn't become a part of the United States, for example. More recently, as the controversy over show more the lack of French at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics shows, British Columbia is probably the province where the "French fact" of Canada is weakest. Calling British Columbia "Canada's Pacific Province" seems to be a misnomer; "the Pacific's Canadian Province" seems like a more apt phrase. show less
The book's main thrust is just how disconnected from the province is from the rest of the nation-state is it a part of. British Columbia became a province of Canada so that it wouldn't become a part of the United States, for example. More recently, as the controversy over show more the lack of French at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics shows, British Columbia is probably the province where the "French fact" of Canada is weakest. Calling British Columbia "Canada's Pacific Province" seems to be a misnomer; "the Pacific's Canadian Province" seems like a more apt phrase. show less
Awards
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia (Finalist – Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize – 1992)
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia (Finalist – Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize – 1992)
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- Rating
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