Old Trails And New Directions

Author : Carol M Judd,Arthur J. Ray
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487590697

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Old Trails and New Directions by Carol M Judd,Arthur J. Ray Pdf

Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology. The papers in this volume reflect recent developments in several specific areas of research: mapping, native cultures, social and labour history, personalities, the Pacific coast, and economics. The moving of the Hudson's Bay Archives from London to Winnipeg in 1974 has patriated an incredibly rich source of information on many aspects of Canadian history, and the effects of this superb collection being available to Canadian scholars are just beginning to be felt. In this volume we can see that the history of the fur trade in Canada is not merely the story of the world's first great multi-national – the Hudson's Bay Company – but a study of a complex society during a period of more than two centuries. Languages, customs, transportation, personalities, marriage, and even sex are looked at in the wide-ranging papers in this book.

Author : Carol M. Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1487589050

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Old Trails and New Directions by Carol M. Judd Pdf

Nineteen papers covering maps, native societies, social history, personalities, the Pacific Coast and economic aspects of the North American fur trade.

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Howard Palmer
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 088864227X

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The Prairie West: Historical Readings by R. Douglas Francis,Howard Palmer Pdf

This collection of 35 readings on Canadian prairie history includes overview interpretation and current research on topics such as the fur trade, native peoples, ethnic groups, status of women, urban and rural society, the Great Depression and literature and art.

Author : Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0806122331

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New Directions in American Indian History by Colin Gordon Calloway Pdf

Each year more than five hundred new books appear in the field of North American Indian history. There exists, however, no means by which scholars can easily judge which are most significant, which explore new fields of inquiry and ask new questions, and which areas are the subject of especially strong inquiry or are being overlooked. New Directions in American Indian History provides some answers to these questions by bringing together a collection of bibliographic essays by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, religionists, linguists, economists, and legal scholars who are working at the cutting edge of Indian history. This volume responds to the label "new directions" in two ways. First, it describes what new directions have been pursued recently by historians of the Indian experience. Second, it points out some new directions that remain to be pursued. Part One, "Recent Trends," contains six essays reviewing the following six areas where there has been significant interest and activity: quantitative methods in Native American history, by Melissa L. Meyer and Russell Thornton; American Indian women, by Deborah Welch; new developments in Métis history, by Dennis F.K. Madill; recent developments in southern plains Indian history, by Willard Rollings; Indians and the law, by George S. Grossman; and twentieth-century Indian history, by James Riding In. Part Two, "Emerging Trends," contains essays on aspects of Indian history that remain undeveloped: language study and Plains Indian history, by Douglas R. Parks; economics and American Indian history, by Ronald L. Trosper; and religious changes in Native American societies, by Robert A. Brightman. These latter essays present a critique of current scholarship and sketch an agenda for future inquiry. Taken together, the nine essays in this book will help students at all levels to evaluate recent scholarship and tap the immense contemporary literature on American Indian history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Farms
ISBN : MINN:31951002872614Q

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New Directions in Rural Preservation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan D. McMillan
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842372

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Since the Time of the Transformers by Alan D. McMillan Pdf

This book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. Using data from the Toquaht Archaeological Project, McMillan challenges current ethnographic interpretations that show little or no change in these peoples’ culture. Instead, by combining historical evidence, recent archaeological data, and oral traditions he demonstrates conclusively that there were in fact extensive cultural changes and restructuring in these societies in the century following contact with Europeans.

Author : Shepard Krech III
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774843386

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The Subarctic Fur Trade by Shepard Krech III Pdf

The papers in this book focus on themes which have been near the centre of fur trade scholarship: the identification of Indian motivations; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of Native dependency on the trade. Spanning the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth, with distinguished authors such as J. Arthur Ray and Toby Morantz, The Subarctic Fur Trade will help scholars become more fully aware of the issues concerned with Native economic history.

Author : Theodore Binnema,Susan Neylan
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774840125

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New Histories for Old by Theodore Binnema,Susan Neylan Pdf

Scholarly depictions of the history of Aboriginal people in Canada have changed dramatically since the 1970s when Arthur J. ("Skip") Ray entered the field. New Histories for Old examines this transformation while extending the scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal history in new directions. This collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields. The chapters reflect themes including Native struggles for land and resources under colonialism, the fur trade, "Indian" policy and treaties, mobility and migration, disease and well-being, and Native-newcomer relations.

Author : Jacqueline Peterson,Jennifer S. H. Brown
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0873514084

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The New Peoples by Jacqueline Peterson,Jennifer S. H. Brown Pdf

A collection of essays on the Metis Native americans by various authors.

Author : Arthur J. Ray
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516925

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Indians in the Fur Trade by Arthur J. Ray Pdf

First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian west before 1870.' Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geography of the West at the time of early contact, illustrating many of the rapid cultural transformations with maps and diagrams. Now with a new introduction and an update on sources, it will continue to be of great use to students and scholars of Native and Canadian history.

Author : Brenda MacDougall,Nichole St-Onge,Carolyn Podruchny
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806188171

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Contours of a People by Brenda MacDougall,Nichole St-Onge,Carolyn Podruchny Pdf

What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography—not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.

Author : Michael J. Puglisi
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0870499696

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Diversity and Accommodation by Michael J. Puglisi Pdf

The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.

Author : Carolyn Podruchny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803287907

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Making the Voyageur World by Carolyn Podruchny Pdf

Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.

Author : George Colpitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004259980

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North America’s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850 by George Colpitts Pdf

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

Author : Richard S. Mackie
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842464

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Trading Beyond the Mountains by Richard S. Mackie Pdf

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.