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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J.I. Little , J.I. LittlePublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 9780773556409ISBN 10: 0773556400 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 28 February 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis lively and extensively researched history of popular challenges to development projects in and around Vancouver in the 1960s and '70s makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the emerging environmentalist movement in this period, and the motivations and social positions of its constituents. Jennifer Bonnell, York University At the Wilderness Edge breaks new ground by exploring a series of complex local antidevelopment campaigns that helped to open up and support new aspects of progressive political culture in British Columbia. Michael Dawson, St Thomas University Some cultural historians treat resistance as a terminus to analysis, rather than a spur to new questions. Little is no such historian. He charts the why, how, and who of these movements [revealing} a deep seated civic will that the city comes out on top. Literary Review of Canada This lively and extensively researched history of popular challenges to development projects in and around Vancouver in the 1960s and '70s makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the emerging environmentalist movement in this period, and the motivations and social positions of its constituents. Jennifer Bonnell, York University At the Wilderness Edge breaks new ground by exploring a series of complex local antidevelopment campaigns that helped to open up and support new aspects of progressive political culture in British Columbia. Michael Dawson, St Thomas University Author InformationJ.I. Little is professor emeritus in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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