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Colonialism's Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820-1950 (Etudes D'histoire Du Quebec / Studies on the History of Quebec, 39, Band 39) - Softcover

Buch 10 von 10: Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec

Gettler, Brian

 
9780228001188: Colonialism's Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820-1950 (Etudes D'histoire Du Quebec / Studies on the History of Quebec, 39, Band 39)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0228001188 ISBN 13: 9780228001188
Verlag: MCGILL QUEENS UNIV PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms - provided an effective means of disseminating colonial social values, laying claim to national space, and disciplining colonized peoples. Colonialism's Currency analyzes the historical experiences and interactions of three distinct First Nations - the Wendat of Wendake, the Innu of Mashteuiatsh, and the Moose Factory Cree - with monetary forms and practices created by colonial powers. Whether treaty payments and welfare provisions such as the paper vouchers favoured by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Canadian Dominion's standardized paper notes, or the "made beaver" (the Hudson's Bay Company's money of account), each monetary form allowed the state to communicate and enforce political, economic, and cultural sovereignty over Indigenous peoples and their lands. Surveying a range of historical cases, Brian Gettler shows how currency simultaneously placed First Nations beyond the bounds of settler society while justifying colonial interventions in their communities. Testifying to the destructive and the legitimizing power of money, Colonialism's Currency is an intriguing exploration of the complex relationship between First Nations and the state.

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Brian Gettler is assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto.

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Verlag
MCGILL QUEENS UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0228001188
ISBN 13 
9780228001188
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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