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Brian Titley - The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney - 9780774807302 - V9780774807302
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The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney

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Description for The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney Hardback. The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFN; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 299.

The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biographical study of a man who played a key role in the cataclysmic events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An immigrant adventurer seeking his fortune in the colonies, Dewdney was embroiled in the gold rushes of the 1860s, the B.C. debates on Confederation, the Riel Rebellion of 1885, political evolution in the North-West Territories, and the Klondike gold rush.

For several years Dewdney held important public offices, such as Indian commissioner of the North-West Territories and Minister of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774807302
SKU
V9780774807302
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Brian Titley
Brian Titley is Professor of Education at theUniversity of Lethbridge. He is the author of Church, State, andthe Control of Schooling in Ireland 1900-44 (1983), A NarrowVision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairsin Canada (1986), and Dark Age: The Political Odyssey ofEmperor Bokassa (1997).

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