North America's Indian trade in European commerce and imagination, 1580-1850 / by George Colpitts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colpitts, George, 1964- author.

Series:

Early American history series ; v. 2.

Early American history series ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Commerce--History.

Indians of North America.

Indian traders--North America--History.

Indian traders.

Commerce.

History.

Indians of North America--Commerce.

Europe--Commerce--North America--History.

Europe.

North America--Commerce--Europe--History.

North America.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Summary:

In North America's Indian trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850, Colpitts offers new perspectives on Europe's, contact with American by examining the ideas, debates and questions arising in the trading that linked newcomers with Native people. European capitalization of the India Trade, beginning in the 16th century forced newcomers to Confront the meaning and legitimacy of traditional gift economies and assess the vice virtue or the commerce they pursue the New World. Making use of French and English colonization texts, published narratives and state colonial papers the authors explores how European capital investments, credit, profits and commercial linkages elaborated and complicated understandings of North American people in the period of colonization. Book jacket.

Contents:

Commerce and imagination in America's Indian trade

Europe and the gift economies in North America

European market places in early America

The church and just price

Commerce in America

Gifts in the commercializing Indian trade

Animating industriousness

From commerce to treaties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004243231

9004243232

OCLC:

861335198