High Slack: Waddingtons Gold Road and the Bute Inlet Massacre of 1864

by Judith Williams

"Engaging ... Williams writes sensitively and with a minimum of academic jargon ... successfully reveals some of the anxieties of the colonial project in British Columbia without losing sight of the fact that the war, far from being a mere anecdote on the colonial stage, was the 'thin edge of the wedge' of the latent violence that has always simmered just underneath the surface of the colonial enterprise more generally. .. . a desperately needed antidote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921586450
• ISBN13: 9780921586456
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 9.0"