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Article: New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995.(Review) (book review)
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- The American Indian Quarterly
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- March 22, 1999
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Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken, eds. New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press, 1998. 349 + ix pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95.
The editors of this collection of papers from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference did not set out to publish the best papers presented at the conference, or even those papers that might represent a cross section of fur trade scholarship. As the editors themselves explain, they planned the volume "to focus on emerging perspectives in the mainstream ...