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The Lives in Objects : Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast /

Jessica Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were s...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stern, Jessica Yirush (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Jessica Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (268 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9781469631509