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Review Of Rethinking The Fur Trade: Cultures Of Exchange In An Atlantic World, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
Review Of Rethinking The Fur Trade: Cultures Of Exchange In An Atlantic World, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
The engine behind [European imperialism and colonization] was the fur trade, a vast, complex, too often misunderstood commerce that drew Europeans deep into the interior of the continent, enmeshed its native peoples in the global economy, and helped trigger almost 125 years of imperial war for possession of America. Susan Sleeper-Smith has done this important subject a considerable service with Rethinking the Fur Trade. In a massive, elegantly appointed anthology, she has provided graduate students with a comprehensive summary of modern scholarship in the field, instructors with a sophisticated and variegated classroom tool, and scholars with an invaluable historiographical reference.
The Upper Country: French Enterprise In The Colonial Great Lakes, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
The Upper Country: French Enterprise In The Colonial Great Lakes, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.
The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner's engaging narrative takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at …