Other Side of the Frontier - Economic Explorations Into Native American History

This book examines the complex interactions between Native Americans, their economies, and the developing U.S economy at large. It helps students to provide a richer understanding of the effects that U.S. economic policy has had on the culture and development of its indigenous peoples.

List of contents

Preface -- Editor’s Introduction: Native Americans and U.S. Economic History -- Pre-Colonial Civilizations -- Introduction -- Economy, Ecology, and Institutions in the Emergence of Humankind -- The Mississippians and Economic Development Before European Colonization -- Institutional Change in the Indian Horse Culture -- Trade and Colonial Economies -- Introduction -- Property Rights and Competition in the Depletion of the Beaver -- The Eighteenth-Century Southeastern American Indian Economy -- Westward Expansion -- Introduction -- Could the Cherokee Have Survived in the Southeast? -- Land, Population, Prices, and the Regulation of Natural Resources -- The Political Economy of Indian Wars -- Twentieth-Century Federalism -- Introduction -- The Economics and Politics of Irrigation Projects on Indian Reservations, 1900–1940 -- The Political Economy of the Hawaiian Home Lands Program

About the author

Linda Barrington is assistant professor of economics at Barnard College.

Summary

This book examines the complex interactions between Native Americans, their economies, and the developing U.S economy at large. It helps students to provide a richer understanding of the effects that U.S. economic policy has had on the culture and development of its indigenous peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Barrington, Linda L Barrington, Linda L. Barrington, Linda L Barrington
• Assisted by: Linda Barrington (Editor), Linda L Barrington (Editor), Linda L. Barrington (Editor), Editor (Editor), Editors (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.1998
• EAN: 9780813333960
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3396-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: American and European Economic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Geschichte, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Volkswirtschaftslehre, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Economic history, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas