Roving eyes : circulation, visuality, and hierarchy of place in east-central British Columbia, 1910-1975

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dc.contributor.authorBradley, Ben
dc.contributor.supervisorLutz, John S.
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-14T18:22:14Z
dc.date.available2008-08-14T18:22:14Z
dc.date.copyright2003en_US
dc.date.issued2008-08-14T18:22:14Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of History
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis broadly explores the complex relations between commodity circulation, modes of visuality, landscape experience, and hierarchies of place in the Yellowhead Pass and Robson Valley areas of east-central British Columbia during the period 1910-1975. By examining a wide array of sources, including some that are banal, fragmentary, and indirect, it shows that views of that space and the numerous rural communities located within it have been structured and mediated by modem networks and systems of transportation and communication, beginning with transcontinental railways and ending with transprovincial highways. It demonstrates that the shifting ways in which places in this corridor-region have been connected to and separated from these lines of circulation, and also the associated ways in which they have been seen (and not seen) by people travelling along them have played vitally important roles in both the routines and possibilities of residents' everyday lives, and their local, place-based identities.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1067
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectTransportationen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subject20th Centuryen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada--Historyen_US
dc.titleRoving eyes : circulation, visuality, and hierarchy of place in east-central British Columbia, 1910-1975en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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