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A legacy of exploitation : early capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821
- Title
- A legacy of exploitation : early capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821 / Susan Dianne Brophy.
- Author
- Brophy, Susan Dianne
- Publication
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- 287 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In A Legacy of Exploitation, Susan Dianne Brophy examines the early Red River Colony to show how its history informs present-day settler-colonial relations. This critical re-evaluation upends standard accounts of the Red River Colony by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. As the primary producers of furs for the commercial trade, Indigenous peoples laboured in an exploitative system designed to benefit the companies. Yet the realities of the fur trade also meant that the companies could never exercise complete control over Indigenous producers. This intimate portrayal of the colony centres Indigenous peoples' autonomy as an unwelcome fact that the Hudson's Bay Company's settlement at Red River intended to disrupt. A Legacy of Exploitation offers a comprehensive account of legal, economic, and geopolitical relations to show how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession. Brophy's unflinching assessment lays bare the myths of pre-Confederation adventuring and the cruel reality of early settler-colonialism in Canada."--
- Subject
- Settler colonialism > Red River Settlement
- Indigenous peoples > Colonization > Red River Settlement
- Indigenous peoples > Red River Settlement > Economic conditions
- Colonization
- Economic history
- Indigenous peoples > Economic conditions
- Settler colonialism
- Red River Settlement > Economic conditions
- Manitoba > Colonization
- Manitoba
- North America > Red River Settlement
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Reciprocity and Dispossession: Processes of Transformation -- Monopoly and Competition: Contests over Indigenous Peoples' Labour and Land -- Honour and Duplicity: Debts of Rivals, Dreams of an Aristocrat -- Servitude and Independence: The Settler Colonial "Experiment" Begins -- Menace and Ally: Proclamation as Provocation -- Consciousness and Ignorance: New Nation, Old Grievances.
- ISBN
- 0774866357
- 9780774866354
- OCLC
- 1276933127
- on1276933127
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library