The Fur Trade, Indian Land and the Need to Define Adequate "Environmental" Parameters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2739047 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter A Thomas (0000-0003-3115-3301, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 359 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/481138 |
| OpenAlex | W2319348686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
There is an interpretation repeated frequently in historical studies of Northeastern Indian-White relations which emphasizes native over-exploitation of fur-bearing species and the encroachment of Europeans onto Indian horticultural lands as prime factors in the disintegration of Native American cultures. Was over-exploitation that significant in the collapse of the Indian-European trade? Was the incorporation of native lands into colonial towns of clear advantage only to White settlers? Data relating to the middle Connecticut River Valley, which cover the period from 1650 to 1670, indicate that a reinterpretation is needed. Social and political factors developed from ethnohistorical reconstruction clearly counter-balance the earlier emphasis on ecological constraints
Archaeology · Balance of nature · Biology · Colonialism · Economic history · Ethnohistory · Ethnology · Fur trade · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · White (mutation) · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Ecology · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2016 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |