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The Lives in Objects

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

The Lives in Objects

By Jessica Stern

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About the book

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush 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. This traditional interpretation casts Native Americans as victims drawn into and made dependent o...Show more

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9781469631479

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published year

2016

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1

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The Lives in Objects

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Hardcover

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