Awards

• Commended for Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Federation 2009 (Canada)
• Commended for Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Federation 2009 (Canada)
• Winner of John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History 2011 (Canada)

Overview

Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the connections between the colonial land policy and the law governing the fisheries. In so doing, Harris rewrites the history of colonial dispossession in British Columbia, offering a new and nuanced examination of the role of law in the consolidation of power within the colonial state.

Full Product Details

Author:   Douglas C. Harris
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780774814195

ISBN 10:   0774814195
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   27 May 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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In this thorough and well-documented account, Harris demonstrates the importance of historical factors to the social and political geography of British Columbia. -- Stephen Bocking, Trent University The Canadian Geographer, 55, no 2 (2011)

Author Information

Douglas C. Harris is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia and the author of Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia.

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