The fur trade revisited : selected papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991 / Jennifer S.H. Brown, W.J. Eccles and Donald P. Heldman, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

North American Fur Trade Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940-

Eccles, W. J. (William John)

Heldman, Donald P.

Conference Name:

North American Fur Trade Conference (6th : 1991 : Mackinac Island, Mich.)

North American Fur Trade Conference.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fur trade--North America--History--Congresses.

Fur trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, archaeology, and literature of a fascinating, growing area of scholarly investigation. Underscoring the work's multifaceted approach is an introductory essay by Lily McAuley titled ""Memories of a Trapper's Daughter."" This vivid and compelling account of the fur-trade life sets a level of quality

Contents:

pt. 1. Transatlantic fur trade markets and entrepreneurs

pt. 2. Native people and changing trade relations

pt. 3. Becoming a trader : origins, lives, and survival

pt. 4. The fur trade at Mackinac

pt. 5. Archaeology and material culture

pt. 6. Into the twentieth century

pt. 7. Fur trade literature and interpretation : issues and problems.

Notes:

"Carte de l'Amérique Septentrionale" on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87013-912-6

0-585-25198-3

OCLC:

45733251