Beyond the City LimitsHistorians have not usually identified British Columbia as a ruralprovince. B. C. historiography has been dominated by mining, logging,and fishing, and theorized within the context of large scale,laissez faire capitalism and economic individualism. Silences in thehistorical record have exacerbated this situation and lent tacitsupport to the dominance of resource based capitalism as the shapingforce in B. C. history. The essays in Beyond the City