"In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort, …
"In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort, …
By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes. However, when dissatisfied French interests conspired to instigate a revolt, the resulting Pontiac Uprising would force…
In this research, I examined the trade of shell wampum beads with the Dutch and how the trade facilitated the creation and maintenance of social memory among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I used ESRI ArcMap 10.8 to map the frequencies of wampum at late sixteenth and seventeenth…
The Atlantic World as a source of historical inquiry has generated a great deal of scholarly research. Historians have changed how they look at empires, immigration, and networks of exchange. By making the ocean, and not a land mass or political entity the source of study, schol…
"Offers insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together"-- "This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and th…
"Offers insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together"-- "This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and th…
An excellent insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together.
As the War of 1812 drew to a stalemate, the American government began the process of state formation in the “Old Northwest,” which put political, economic, and cultural pressures on the indigenous population. Among the Anishinaabeg, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and other Native inhabita…
During the Kievan era (ca. 900–1240), Novgorod was the leading fur-trade center in western Eurasia. Situated in northwestern Russia, Novgorod lay along key routes connecting Northern Europe with Byzantium and the Islamic East, all of which acted as principle consumers of pelts b…