Pemmican Empire

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

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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.

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