A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada

A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada
ISBN-10
0774864443
ISBN-13
9780774864442
Category
History
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2020-11-01
Publisher
UBC Press
Author
Cole Harris

Description

Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he exposes the underlying architecture of colonialism, from first contacts, to the immigrant experience in early Canada, to the dispossession of First Nations. In the process, he unearths fresh insights on the influence of Indigenous peoples and argues that Canada’s boundedness is ultimately drawing it toward its Indigenous roots.

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