Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World by Susan Sle

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Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rethinking the Fur Trade offers a nuanced look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade, a phenomenon that has often been oversimplified and misrepresented.

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Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rethinking the Fur Trade offers a nuanced look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade, a phenomenon that has often been oversimplified and misrepresented. These essays show how the role of Native Americans was far more instrumental in the conduct and outcome of the fur trade than previously suggested. Rethinking the Fur Trade exposes what has been called the "invisible hand of indigenous commerce," revealing how it changed European interaction with Indians, influenced what was produced to serve the interests of Indian customers, and led to important cultural innovations. The initial essays explain the working mechanisms of the fur trade and explore how and why it evolved in a North Atlantic context. The second section examines indigenous perspectives through primary-source writings from the period and considers newly evolving indigenous perspectives about the fur trade. The final sections analyze the social history of the fur trade, the profound effect of the cloth trade on Indian dress and culture, and the significance of gender, kinship, and community in the workings of economic exchange.

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A comprehensive reader on the significance of the fur trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Author Biography

Susan Sleeper-Smith, professor of history at Michigan State University, is the author of Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes and the editor of Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives (Nebraska 2009). Contributors: Dean Anderson, Donald F. Bibeau, Mary Black-Rogers, Bruce J. Bourque, Jennifer S. H. Brown, Allen Chronister, James L. Clayton, Bruce White, W. J. Eccles, William F. Ganong, James A. Hanson, Gail D. MacLeitch, D. Peter MacLeod, D. W. Moodie, Jacqueline Petersen, Carolyn Podruchny, Gail DeBuse Potter, Arthur J. Ray, Timothy J. Shannon, Susan Sleeper-Smith, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Reuben Gold Thwaites, Sylvia Van Kirk, Richard White, and Ruth H. Whitehead.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of TablesSource AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultures of Exchange in a North Atlantic WorldPart 1. Indigenous PerspectivesIntroduction1. Of the Mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or Rather "Of Stinking Waters"      Father Allouez2. On the Hunting of the Gaspesians      Father Chrestien LeClercq3. The Hunting of Moose, of Bears, of Beavers, of Lynxes, and Other Animals According to Their Seasons      Father Chrestien LeClercq4. Tarrentines and the Introduction of European Trade Goods in the Gulf of Maine      Bruce J. Bourque and Ruth Holmes Whitehead5. The Anishinabeg Point of View: The History of the Great Lakes Region to 1800 in Nineteenth-Century Mississauga, Odawa, and Obijwa Historiography      D. Peter MacLeod6. Fur Trade Literature from a Tribal Point of View: A Critique      Donald F. BibeauPart 2. The Social and Political Significance of ExchangeIntroduction7. Agriculture and the Fur Trade      D. W. Moodie8. "Give Us a Little Milk": The Social and Cultural Significance of Gift Giving in the Lake Superior Fur Trade      Bruce M. White9. "Starving" and Survival in the Subartic Fur Trade: A Case for Contextual Semantics      Mary Black-Rogers10. The Growth and Economic Significance of the American Fur Trade, 17901890      James L. Clayton11. "Red" Labor: Iroquois Participation in the Atlantic Economy      Gail D. MacLeitch12. The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism      W. J. Eccles13. The Middle Ground      Richard White14. Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings      Richard WhitePart 3. Cloth TradeIntroduction15. Indians as Consumers in the Eighteenth Century      Arthur J. Ray16. Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion      Timothy J. Shannon17. The Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 17151760      Dean L. Anderson18. The Matchcoat      Gail DeBuse Potter19. Chiefs Coats Supplied by the American Fur Company      Allen Chronister20. The Myth of the Silk Hat and the End of the Rendezvous      James A. HansonPart 4. Gender, Kinship, and CommunityIntroduction21. Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade      Susan Sleeper-Smith22. "The Custom of the Country": An Examination of Fur Trade Marriage Practices      Sylvia Van Kirk23. Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Metis Communities      Jennifer S. H. Brown24. Prelude to Red River: A Social Portrait of the Great Lakes Métis      Jacqueline Peterson25. The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community      Helen Hornbeck Tanner26. Festivities, Fortitude, and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 17851827      Carolyn PodruchnyIndex

Review

"Rethinking the Fur Trade is an invaluable book."—Claiborne A. Skinner, Annals of Iowa"Rethinking the Fur Trade is a welcome and valuable addition. . . . It succeeds in giving multiple perspectives on the cultures of exchange and the fur trade for a wide audience."—Chris Johnson, North Dakota History

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A comprehensive reader on the significance of the fur trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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" Rethinking the Fur Trade is a welcome and valuable addition. . . . It succeeds in giving multiple perspectives on the cultures of exchange and the fur trade for a wide audience."-Chris Johnson, North Dakota History

Details ISBN0803243294 Short Title RETHINKING THE FUR TRADE Publisher University of Nebraska Press Language English ISBN-10 0803243294 ISBN-13 9780803243293 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint University of Nebraska Press Subtitle Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith UK Release Date 2009-12-01 AU Release Date 2009-12-01 NZ Release Date 2009-12-01 US Release Date 2009-12-01 Author Susan Sleeper-Smith Pages 702 Publication Date 2009-12-01 DEWEY 382.45685097 Illustrations 9 photos, 5 maps, 14 tables, 1 figure Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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