Community politics of the fur trade : relationships, mobility, and landscapes of possibility / Amélie Allard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allard, Amélie, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fur trade--Great Lakes Region (North America)--History.

Fur trade.

Community organization.

Fur trade--North America--History.

Fur trade--United States--History.

community organizations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 229 : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2026.

Summary:

"This book examines the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic landscape where European traders and Indigenous peoples negotiated clashing perspectives, highlighting both cooperation and contentious power imbalances during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

"Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identitiesThe North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Ame̹lie Allard examines the Great Lakes region as a dynamic landscape where European traders and Indigenous peoples negotiated clashing perspectives with the common purpose of trade and establishing relationships. Allard portrays the interactions between these groups as community politics and community building, highlighting both cooperation and contentious power imbalances during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Drawing on archaeological evidence including trading posts and wrecked canoes and historical documents such as traders' journals and memoirs, Allard unravels the social complexities of this world. She demonstrates how processes of place-making-through foodways, the built environment, and place-naming-as well as both waterborne and overland mobility shaped the identities and relationships of Euro-Canadian, me̹tis, and Indigenous peoples. Community Politics of the Fur Trade challenges traditional narratives of colonialism by suggesting that for many Indigenous peoples such as the Anishinaabeg and Dakota, the fur trade era represented a moment of possibility rather than an inevitable path to subjugation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Historical Context: Understanding the Mobile World of the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade

Community Politics, Place-Making, and Architectural Practices

Feeding the Crew: Relationships, Inclusivity, and Difference around Food-

Related Practices and Discourse

Relationships with the Landscape: Land-Based Mobility and Place-Making (and Claiming)

Navigating Relationships while En Voyage on Water

Gendered Mobilities and Ideals of Masculinity

Conclusion

Appendix I. Artifact Distribution (Specimen Count) by Unit and Shovel Test Pit

Appendix II. Taxonomic Representation from the R'aume Leaf River Post Faunal Assemblage

Glossary of French and Anishinaabe Terms

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Allard, Ame̹lie Community politics of the fur trade

ISBN:

9780813079561

081307956X

OCLC:

1547280836

Publisher Number:

90104101532