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Author Stern, Jessica Yirush, author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
Indians of North America.
Southern States.
Economic conditions.
White people -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians -- History.
White people.
Relations with Indians.
History.
Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 17th century.
Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Southern States -- Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 17th century.
Ceremonial exchange.
Ceremonial exchange -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
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