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Making the voyageur world : travelers and traders in the North American fur trade /
"French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, Neb. :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | France overseas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on sources
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction : Sons of the farm, the trade, and the wilderness
- 2. Leaving home : family and livelihood in French Canada and beyond
- 3. Rites of passage and ritual moments : voyageur cosmology
- 4. It is the paddle that brings us : voyageurs working in canoes
- 5. The theater of hegemony : masters, clerks, and servants
- 6. Rendezvous : parties, tricks, and friendships
- 7. En dérouine : life at interior fur trade posts
- 8. Tender ties, fluid monogamy, and trading sex : voyageurs and aboriginal women
- 9. Disengagement : going home and going free
- 10. Conclusion : carrying the world
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.