The lives in objects, Native Americans, British colonists, and cultures of labor and exchange in the Southeast, Jessica Yirush Stern
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The lives in objects, Native Americans, British colonists, and cultures of labor and exchange in the Southeast, Jessica Yirush Stern
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The lives in objects
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Jessica Yirush Stern
Sub title
Native Americans, British colonists, and cultures of labor and exchange in the Southeast
Summary
In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists. This traditional interpretation casts Native Americans as victims drawn into and made dependent on a transatlantic marketplace. Stern complicates that picture by showing how both the Southeastern Indian and British American actors mixed gift giving and commodity exchange in the deerskin trade, such that Southeastern Indians retained much greater agency as producers and consumers than the standard narrative allows. By tracking the debates about Indian trade regulation, Stern also reveals that the British were often not willing to embrace modern free market values. While she sheds new light on broader issues in native and colonial history, Stern also demonstrates that concepts of labor, commerce, and material culture were inextricably intertwined to present a fresh perspective on trade in the colonial Southeast
Target audience
adult
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- Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 17th century
- Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 17th century
- Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Electronic books
- Whites -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians -- History
- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
- Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 18th century
- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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- Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 17th century
- Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 17th century
- Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Electronic books
- Whites -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians -- History
- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
- Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 18th century
- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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