Colonial Relations

Adele Perry is Professor of History and Senior Fellow at St John's College, University of Manitoba. She has taught there since 2000 and held the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History from 2003 to 2014. Perry is the author of On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1846-1871 (2001), which won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the best book published on the history of British Columbia, co-won the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Prize, and was short-listed for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciencesè Raymond Klibanksy prize for the best English-language book in the humanities. On the Edge of Empire has been reprinted six times. Perry is also co-editor of three editions of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003, 2006, 2010). She has been awarded the Jensen-Miller prize for the best article in Western American Women's History and the Hilda Neatby Award awarded by the Canadian Committee on Women's History. Perry was co-chair of the 2014 Berkshires Conference on the History of Women. Since 2008 she has been book reviewer for the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

• 1. Empire, family, and archive; 2. Housekeepers and wives; 3. Free people, servants, and states; 4. Changing intimacies, changing empire; 5. Local elites, governance, and authority; 6. Governors, wives, daughters and sons; 7. Colonies, nations and metropoles; 8. Wealth and descendants; Conclusion: empire, colonies, and families; Bibliography; Index.

'Adele Perry has given us a richly textured account of a prominent and influential 'Canadian' family whose networks and tendrils shaped the histories of Vancouver Island and the interdependent imperial worlds beyond it. A cultural history of complexly social selves, Colonial Relations never loses sight of the work of intimacy in the making of colonial connection, the centrality of marriage to the political economy of settler colonialism, or the malleability of race and gender and sexuality in the grip of imperial power. Perry's history of the Connollys and the Douglases is brimming with insight and wisdom and archive stories that we will be reckoning with for years to come.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois