Fish Law and Colonialism by Douglas C. Harris PAPERBACK 9780802084538

Fish Law and Colonialism\nby Douglas C. Harris\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Douglas C. Harris\nTitle: Fish Law and Colonialism\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Colonialism and imperialism\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2001\nISBN-13: 9780802084538\nISBN-10: 0802084532\nRRP: \u00A335.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAn engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law. \nPacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over .