Welcome to Resisterville by Kathleen Rodgers
A compelling, highly readable study of American migration to the West Kootenays and of the counterculture values that created a vibrant society in the Canadian wilderness.
Deftly combining interviews, local newspaper reports, and archival and personal documents, Welcome to Resisterville is an exciting, original book that will appeal to a broad audienceIt tells the intriguing story of the migration of American war resisters to BC, the welcome they received, and the vibrant counterculture that they helped form. -- Jim Conley, co-editor of Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-mobility
Kathleen Rodgers’s sociological study of the impact of American Vietnam-era exiles on the creation of a countercultural haven in the West Kootenay Valley is a fascinating account of modern immigration history...Rodgers’s study provides future scholars with a rich and complex body of material to better understand a whole range of changes to Canadian society that ensued in the aftermath of yet another American invasion. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 *
Kathleen Rodgers’s sociological study of the impact of American Vietnam-era exiles on the creation of a countercultural haven in the West Kootenay Valley is a fascinating account of modern immigration history...Rodgers’s study provides future scholars with a rich and complex body of material to better understand a whole range of changes to Canadian society that ensued in the aftermath of yet another American invasion. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 *
Kathleen Rodgers is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780774827348 |
| ISBN 10 | 0774827343 |
| Title | Welcome to Resisterville |
| Author | Kathleen Rodgers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia Press |
| Year published | 2014-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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