The Lives in Objects (eBook)

Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast

Jessica Yirush Stern (Autor)

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2016
268 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3149-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Jessica Stern is associate professor of history at California State University, Fullerton.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones, 1 maps, 1 graph, 1 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cherokee • Chickasaw • Choctaw • Colonial American Gift Exchange • Colonial Georgia • colonial South Carolina • Colonial Southeast • Corn Mother • Creek Indians • Deerskin Trade • Dependency Theory • duffels • Economic Theory in the British Atlantic • European Consumption of Native American Goods • Free Trade in Early America • Georgia Malcontents • Georgia Trustees • Indian Traders • James Glenn • James Oglethorpe • John Locke in America • labor in Early America • Leather • mercantilism • Native American Consumption of European Goods • Native American Gift Exchange • Proprietors of South Carolina • slavery in Colonial Georgia • South Carolina Commissioners for the Indian Trade • Southeastern Indian Agriculture • Southeastern Indians • Southeastern Indian Slave Trade • strouds • Textile Trade in the Atlantic World • Tomochichi • Wool • Yamacraw • Yamasee • Yuchi
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3149-0 / 1469631490
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3149-3 / 9781469631493