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Book The Aulneau Collection  1734 1745

Download or read book The Aulneau Collection 1734 1745 written by Jean Pierre Aulneau and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Everett D  Graff Collection of Western Americana

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

Download or read book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents written by Jesuits and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits written by Ines G. Zupanov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others. The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.

Book Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto

Download or read book Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto written by Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise and Fall of New France

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of New France written by George McKinnon Wrong and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masters of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael A. McDonnell
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2015-12-08
  • ISBN : 0374714185
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Masters of Empire written by Michael A. McDonnell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg who lived along Lakes Michigan and Huron were equally influential. McDonnell charts their story, and argues that the Anishinaabeg have been relegated to the edges of history for too long. Through remarkable research into 19th-century Anishinaabeg-authored chronicles, McDonnell highlights the long-standing rivalries and relationships among the great tribes of North America, and how Europeans often played only a minor role in their stories. McDonnell reminds us that it was native people who possessed intricate and far-reaching networks of trade and kinship, of which the French and British knew little. And as empire encroached upon their domain, the Anishinaabeg were often the ones doing the exploiting. By dictating terms at trading posts and frontier forts, they played a crucial role in the making of early America. Through vivid depictions of early conflicts, the French and Indian War, and Pontiac's Rebellion, all from a native perspective, Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America and the origins of the Revolutionary War. By calling attention to the Great Lakes as a crucible of culture and conflict, McDonnell reimagines the landscape of American history.

Book The Merchant John Askin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin M. Carroll
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2017-09-01
  • ISBN : 1628953128
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book The Merchant John Askin written by Justin M. Carroll and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Askin, a Scots-Irish migrant to North America, built his fur trade between the years 1758 and 1781 in the Great Lakes region of North America. His experience serves as a vista from which to view important aspects of the British Empire in North America. The close interrelationship between trade and empire enabled Askin’s economic triumphs but also made him vulnerable to the consequences of imperial conflicts and mismanagement. The ephemeral, contested nature of British authority during the 1760s and 1770s created openings for men like Askin to develop a trade of smuggling liquor or to challenge the Hudson’s Bay Company’s monopoly over the fur trade, and allowed them to boast in front of British officers of having the “Key of Canada” in their pockets. How British officials responded to and even sanctioned such activities demonstrates the vital importance of trade and empire working in concert. Askin’s life’s work speaks to the collusive nature of the British Empire—its vital need for the North American merchants, officials, and Indigenous communities to establish effective accommodating relationships, transgress boundaries (real or imagined), and reject certain regulations in order to achieve the empire’s goals.

Book The Fur Trade in Canada

Download or read book The Fur Trade in Canada written by Harold A. Innis and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2024-06-15T00:00:00Z with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1930, “The Fur Trade in Canada” is a book by Harold Innis that draws sweeping conclusions about the complex and frequently devastating effects of the fur trade on aboriginal peoples; about how furs as staple products induced an enduring economic dependence among the European immigrants who settled in the new colony and about how the fur trade ultimately shaped Canada's political destiny. Covers the fur trade era in Canada from the early 16th century to the 1920s. It analyses the economic and social implications of Canada's reliance on staple products.

Book Three Hundred Prairie Years

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  • Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
  • Publisher : University of Regina Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780889770805
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Three Hundred Prairie Years written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Rare and Choice Books  Principally Americana

Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare and Choice Books Principally Americana written by Arthur H. Clark Company and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book M  moires Et Comptes Rendus de la Soci  t   Royale Du Canada

Download or read book M moires Et Comptes Rendus de la Soci t Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounters at the Heart of the World

Download or read book Encounters at the Heart of the World written by Elizabeth A. Fenn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured."--Source nconnue.

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteenth Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours written by Dale R. Russell and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of the hypothesis of a historic migration of the Western Cree resulting from the introduction of the fur trade.

Book Publication

    Book Details:
  • Author : Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Publication written by Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire

Download or read book Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire written by Scott Berthelette and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone. Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not unwavering agents of imperial power. Increasingly they found themselves between two worlds as they built relationships with Indigenous communities, sometimes joining them through adoption or marriage, raising families of their own. The result was an ambivalent empire that grew in fits and starts. It was guided by imperfect information, built upon a contested Indigenous borderland, fragmented by local interests, and periodically neglected by government administrators. Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of the Canadiens who used family and kinship ties to navigate between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French colonial government from the early 1660s to the 1780s. Acting as cultural intermediaries, the Canadiens made it possible for France to extend its presence into northwest North America. Over time, however, their uncertain relationships with the French colonial state splintered imperial authority, leading to an outcome that few could have foreseen – the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis.