The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, MacKinac Island, Michigan, 1991 - Couverture rigide

Fisk, Jo-Anne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0870133489 ISBN 13 : 9780870133480

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The Fur Trade Revisited is a collection of twenty-eight essays selected from the more than fifty presentations made at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1991. Essays contained in this important new interpretive work focus on the history, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation. Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an introductory essay by Lily McAuley titled "Memories of a Trapper's Daughter." This vivid and compelling account of the fur-trade life sets a level of quality for what follows. Part one of The Fur Trade Revisited discusses eighteenth-century fur trade intersections with European markets. The essays in part two examine Native people and the strategies they employed to meet demands placed on them by the market for furs. Part three examines the origins, motives, and careers of those who actually participated in the fur trade. Part four focuses attention on the indigenous fur-trade culture and subsequent archaeology in the area around Mackinac Island, Michigan, while part five contains studies focusing on the fur-trade culture in other parts of North America. Part six assesses the fur trade after 1870 and part seven contains evaluations of the critical historical and literary interpretations prevalent in fur-trade scholarship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer S.H. Brown is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples in an Urban and Regional Context, and Director of the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, University of Winnipeg.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870133489
• ISBN 13: 9780870133480
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 570
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible