Community Politics of the Fur Trade: Relationships, Mobility, and Landscapes of Possibility

Author:   Amélie Allard
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
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9780813079561


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 March 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Community Politics of the Fur Trade: Relationships, Mobility, and Landscapes of Possibility


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Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identities The North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Amélie Allard examines the Great Lakes region as a dynamic landscape where European traders and Indigenous peoples negotiated clashing perspectives with the common purpose of trade and establishing relationships. Allard portrays the interactions between these groups as community politics and community building, highlighting both cooperation and contentious power imbalances during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on archaeological evidence including trading posts and wrecked canoes and historical documents such as traders’ journals and memoirs, Allard unravels the social complexities of this world. She demonstrates how processes of place-making—through foodways, the built environment, and place-naming—as well as both waterborne and overland mobility shaped the identities and relationships of Euro-Canadian, métis, and Indigenous peoples. Community Politics of the Fur Trade challenges traditional narratives of colonialism by suggesting that for many Indigenous peoples such as the Anishinaabeg and Dakota, the fur trade era represented a moment of possibility rather than an inevitable path to subjugation.

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Author:   Amélie Allard
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
ISBN:  

9780813079561


ISBN 10:   081307956
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Amélie Allard is associate professor of anthropology and archaeology at Rhode Island College.

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