Pemmican Empire

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-62289-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 317 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Studies in Environment and History

In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the continent. Pemmican Empire traces the history of the unsustainable food-market hunt on the plains, which, once established, created distinctive trade relations between the newcomers and the native peoples. It resulted in the near annihilation of the Canadian bison herds north of the Missouri River. Drawing on fur company records and a broad range of Native American history accounts, Colpitts offers new perspectives on the market economy of the western prairie that was established during this time, one that created asymmetric power among traders and informed the bioregional history of the West where the North American bison became a food commodity hunted to nearly the last animal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colpitts, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Changing food-energy regimes in the northern fur trade, 1760–90; 2. The pemmican bioregion, 1790–1810; 3. Food fights and pemmican wars, 1790–1816; 4. Selling bison flesh in the British market after 1821; 5. Commercial war zones in the bison commons, 1835–50; 6. Ending the pemmican era; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Colpitts, George
George Colpitts is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary.