How Long to Read Contesting Rural Space

How Long Does it Take to Read Contesting Rural Space?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Contesting Rural Space by R.W. Sandwell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An intriguing mix of African-American, First Nation, Hawaiian, and European, the early residents of Saltspring Island were neither successful farmers nor full-time waged workers, neither squatters nor bona-fide landowners. Contesting Rural Space explores how these early settlers created and sustained a distinctive society, culture, and economy. In the late nineteenth century, residents claiming land on Saltspring Island walked a careful line between following mandatory homestead policies and manipulating these policies for their own purposes. The residents favoured security over risk and modest sufficiency over accumulation of wealth. Government land policies, however, were based on an idea of rural settlement as commercially successful family farms run by sober and respectable men. Settlers on Saltspring Island, deterred by the poor quality of farmland but encouraged by the variety of part-time, off-farm remunerative occupations, the temperate climate, First Nations cultural and economic practices, and the natural abundance of the Gulf Island environment, made their own choices about the appropriate uses of rural lands. R.W. Sandwell shows how the emerging culture differed from both urban society and ideals of rural society.

How long is Contesting Rural Space?

Contesting Rural Space by R.W. Sandwell is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Contesting Rural Space Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Contesting Rural Space aloud.

What Reading Level is Contesting Rural Space?

Contesting Rural Space is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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