Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890

Fisher, Robin

ISBN 10: 0774801085 ISBN 13: 9780774801089

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2002

Synopsis

Originally published in 1977, "Contact and Conflict" has prompted many scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans - fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin Fisher has written a new introduction in which he surveys the literature since 1977 and comments on any new insights into these relationships. Fisher contends that the fur trade had originally brought minimal cultural change to the Indians. In 1858 it essentially came to an end and with the beginning of white settlement, there was a fundamental change in the relationship between Indians and Europeans. What had been a reciprocal system between the two civilizations became a pattern of white dominance. He shows that, while the Indians had been able to adjust gradually to the changes introduced by the traders in the contact period, they lost control of their culture under the impact of colonization. Winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History, 1977, Robin Fisher is a Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. "Robin Fisher is a Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia."

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About the Author

Robin Fisher is head of the Department of History at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Review

"A well-written, stimulating book recommended for university and college libraries with an interest in Canadian and Indian history."―Choice

"This reviewer rates Professor Fisher’s outstanding book as the finest regional analysis yet written on the interracial adjustments between Native inhabitants of the Pacific northwest and the white invaders."―Journal of the West

"Without doubt one of the best accounts that has been written. It is a book which will be in demand by every student of British Columbia history and certainly should be on the bookshelf of those doing anthropological studies in the area."―American West

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774801085
• ISBN 13: 9780774801089
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250