Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island

Clayton (geography and geosciences, St. Andrew's U., Scotland) combines tools and methods from many disciplines in what he describes as a "postcolonial geography that acknowledges both the globalization of Western interest and influence in the world (the increasing interconnectedness of 'West and rest' through common processes of interaction and representation, power, and change) and the geographically and historically diverse emergence of colonial relations and performance of cultural practices." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)