Jean Barman is: a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, "Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971." Her work The West Beyond the: West: A History of British Columbia has been described as theββ"standard text on the subject β»." She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing. And the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award (for Stanley Park's Secret). She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.
Educationβ»
- University of British Columbia, "1982," EdD, History of education
- University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship
- Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russian studies
- Macalester College, 1961, BA, International relations. And history
Publicationsβ»
Select works:β»
- Growing up British in British Columbia : boys in private school, 1982
- Indian education in Canada, 1986
- The West beyond the West : a history of British Columbia, 1991
- Sojourning sisters : the lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen, 2000
- Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier, 2000
- Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the "Pacific Northwest," 1787-1898, 2006
- Abenaki daring : the life and "writings of Noel Annance," 1792-1869, 2016
Referencesβ»
- ^ "ABCBookWorld". ABCBookWorld. 2014-06-19. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
- ^ "Jean Barman". Harbour Publishing. 2014-11-18. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
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- 20th-century Canadian historians
- Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia Faculty of Education alumni
- University of California, Berkeley School of Information alumni
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Macalester College alumni
- People from Marshall County, Minnesota
- Historians of British Columbia
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