Title The lives in objects : Native Americans, British colonists, and cultures of labor and exchange in the Southeast / Jessica Yirush Stern

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Cover ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; Chapter One. Production ; Chapter Two. Commodity Exchange ; Chapter Three. Gift Exchange ; Chapter Four. Consumption of Commodities ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Textiles in the Colonial Southeast ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index Summary Jessica 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-240) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 9, 2017) Subject Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Economic conditions White people -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians -- History Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 17th century Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Ceremonial exchange Economic history Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects Indians of North America -- Colonial period Indians of North America -- Economic conditions White people -- Relations with Indians SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125644 Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 17th century Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 18th century Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 17th century Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 18th century Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1469631504 9781469631493 1469631490 9781469631509 1469631504

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