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Some Adventures Of The Boys: Enniskillen Township's "Foreign Drillers," Imperialism, And Colonial Discourse, 1873-1923, Christina Ann Burr
Some Adventures Of The Boys: Enniskillen Township's "Foreign Drillers," Imperialism, And Colonial Discourse, 1873-1923, Christina Ann Burr
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This paper analyses the travel writings composed by the oil drillers from Enniskillen township, in southwestern Ontario, to explain how they went about reinforcing the project of European capitalist imperialism while simultaneously disavowing the agency of native "Others." As British subjects and Anglo-Canadians, travel and travel writing helped to define Enniskillen's "foreign drillers" as both colonizers and colonized. As agents of imperialism Enniskillen drillers became part of an imperial overclass by virtue of their "whiteness," "Britishness," and technical expertise in the mining and refining of petroleum. The colonial oil fields also became a space for the re-invention of Victorian ideals …
Newfoundland And Labrador History, 1949-1972, Miriam Wright
Newfoundland And Labrador History, 1949-1972, Miriam Wright
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