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The Fur Trade Revisited : Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991.
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,...
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Memories of a Trapper's Daughter: Banquet Address of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference; Part I: Transatlantic Fur Trade Markets and Entrepreneurs; Exchange Patterns in the European Market for North American Furs and Skins, 1720-1760; British Capital in the Fur Trade: John Strettell and John Fraser; Part II: Native People and Changing Trade Relations; Articulation of the Lakota Mode of Production and the Euro-American Fur Trade.
- French and Spanish Colonial Trade Policies and the Fur Trade among the Caddoan Indians of the Trans-Mississippi SouthThe Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 1715-1760; "No less than 7 different nations": Ethnicity and Culture Contact at Fort George-Buckingham House; Looking at the Ledgers: Sauk and Mesquakie Trade Debts, 1820-1840; "Half-Breed" Rolls and Fur Trade Families in the Great Lakes Region-An Introduction and Bibliography; Part III: Becoming a Trader: Origins, Lives, and Survival; The Career of Joseph La France, Coureur de Bois in the Upper Great Lakes.
- The Cadottes: Five Generations of Fur Traders on Lake SuperiorThe Fear of Pillaging: Economic Folktales of the Great Lakes Fur Trade; Roots in the Mohawk Valley: Sir William Johnson's Legacy in the North West Company; Faithful Service under Different Flags: A Socioeconomic Profile of the Columbia District, Hudson's Bay Company and the Upper ; Failure on the Columbia: Nathaniel Wyeth's Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company; Part IV: The Fur Trade at Mackinac; The Michilimackinac Misfortunes of Commissary Roberts; Effects of the American Revolution on Fur-Trade Society at Michilimackinac.
- Apprentice Trader: Henry H. Sibley and American Fur at MackinacCrucifixes and Medallions from Michilimackinac; Part V Archaeology and Material Culture; A Newly-Discovered Trade Gun Type; When Rivers Were Roads: Deciphering the Role of Canoe Portages in the Western Lake Superior Fur Trade; Origins of Fort Union: Archaeology and History; Part VI Into the Twentieth Century; The Hudson's Bay Company in Southwestern Alberta, 1874-1905; Creating Corporate Images of the Fur Trade: The Hudson's Bay Company and Public Relations in the 1930s; Capt. Thierry Mallet: Adventurer, Businessman, Writer.
- Part VII Fur made Literature and Interpretation: Issues and ProblemsLong's Voyages and Travels: Fact and Fiction; The H.B.C.'s Arctic Expedition 1836-1839: Dease's Field Notes as Compared to Simpson's Narrative; Fur Trade Social History and the Public Historian: Some Other Recent Trends; About the Authors and Editors; Index.