The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41

by Patricia E. Roy

Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association. Patricia Roy's latest book, The Oriental Question, continues her study into why British Columbians - and many Canadians from outside the province - were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Drawing on contemporary press and government reports and individual correspondence and memoirs, Roy shows how British Columbians consolidated a "white...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774810114
• ISBN13: 9780774810111
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"