Rethinking the fur trade
Subtitle: cultures of exchange in an Atlantic world
By: edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith.
Contributors: Sleeper-Smith, Susan.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780803243293
Subjects: Fur trade -- North America -- History; North America -- Economic conditions -- History -- 17th century; North America -- Economic conditions -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of the mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or rather "Of stinking waters" / Father Allouez; title: On the hunting of the Gaspesians / Father Chrestien LeClercq; title: The hunting of moose, of bears, of beavers, of lynxes, and other animals according to their seasons / Father Chrestien LeClercq; title: Tarrentines and the introduction of European trade goods in the Gulf of Maine / Bruce J. Bourque and Ruth Holmes Whitehead; title: The Anishinabeg point of view : the history of the Great Lakes Region to 1800 in nineteenth-century Mississauga, Odawa, and Obijwa historiography / D. Peter MacLeod; title: Fur trade literature from a tribal point of view : a critique / Donald F. Bibeau; title: Agriculture and the fur trade / D.W. Moodie; title: "Give us a little milk" : the social and cultural significance of gift giving in the Lake Superior fur trade / Bruce M. White; title: "Starving" and survival in the SubArtic fur trade : a case for contextual semantics / Mary Black-Rogers; title: The growth and economic significance of the American fur trade, 1790-1890 / James L. Clayton; title: "Red" labor : Iroquois participation in the Atlantic Economy / Gail D. MacLeitch; title: The fur trade and eighteenth-century imperialism / W.J. Eccles; title: The middle ground / Richard White; title: Creative misunderstandings and new understandings / Richard White; title: Indians as consumers in the eighteenth century / Arthur J. Ray; title: Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier : Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon; title: The flow of European trade goods into the Western Great Lakes region, 1715-1760 / Dean L. Anderson; title: The matchcoat / Gail DeBuse Potter; title: Chiefs coats supplied by the American Fur Company / Allen Chronister; title: The myth of the silk hat and the end of the rendezvous / James A. Hanson; title: Women, kin, and Catholicism : new perspectives on the fur trade / Susan Sleeper-Smith; title: "The custom of the country" : an examination of fur trade marriage practices / Sylvia Van Kirk; title: Woman as centre and symbol in the emergence of Metis communities / Jennifer S.H. Brown; title: Prelude to Red River : a social portrait of the Great Lakes Métis / Jacqueline Peterson; title: The Glaize in 1792 : a composite Indian community / Helen Hornbeck Tanner; title: Festivities, fortitude, and fraternalism : fur trade masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827 / Carolyn Podruchny.