New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995 | 
| Creators: N. S.) North American Fur Trade Conference (1995 : Halifax, Jo-anne Fiske, William Wicken
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2845827
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 358
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0870134345
Dewey Decimal Number: 380.1456753097
EAN: 9780870134340
ASIN: 0870134345
Publication Date: June 1998
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Book Description
New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced and then neglected. Fur trade studies have been criticized for remaining outside the current mainstream of historiography, in particular for paying scant attention to the rich insights to be found in approaches adopted for the fields of social and gender history. This volume redresses some of those omissions.
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Fur Trade History is Flourishing!! March 28, 2001
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This book presents the latest scholarship on a wide variety of topics in the lively field of fur trade history. By making available many of the best papers presented at the Halifax conference, this book brings to a broad audience the research of scholars young and old who have studied several important aspects of what may fairly be described as one of the fundamental themes in early North American history. Topics range from biographies to economic, social, and cultural history. This book demonstrates that the field is alive and well, and that fur trade history can certainly offer important materials for students and teachers of American or Canadian history.
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