Nothing To Write Home About: British Family Correspondence And The Setter Colonial Everyday In British Columbia Hardcover

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Laura Ishiguro

Scholars of history, post-colonial studies, literary studies, biography writing, space and cultural geography, Canadian Studies, British Studies, and in the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies will find this book to be of interest.

9780774838436

English

University of British Columbia Press

01-May-19

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Laura Ishiguro is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, where she is a historian of settler colonialism, mobility, family, and the everyday in Canada and the British Empire. Her research has been published in a number of edited collections and journals, including a 2016 article in BC Studies - "Growing Up and Grown Up [...] in Our Future City: Discourses of Childhood and Settler Futurity in Colonial British Columbia" - which won the 2017 Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism article prize. She has also coedited (with Esme Cleall and Emily J. Manktelow) a 2013 special issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History on histories of family in the British Empire, and edited a 2016 special issue of BC Studies on histories of settler colonialism in British Columbia. She is an associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University (2017-20) and a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC (2018).