Pemmican Empire - Food, Trade, Last Bison Hunts in North American Plains, 1780 1882

Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

George Colpitts offers new perspectives on the market economy of the western prairie after 1780, 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.

Product details

• Authors: George Colpitts, George (University of Calgary) Colpitts, Colpitts George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107044906
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04490-6
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Food & society, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas