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This first English translation of a richly detailed Dutch account book on fur trade with Native Americans yields essential data for understanding the workings of the intercultural commerce in colonial North America. This is print on demand edition of a hard-to-find publication contains accounts of over 2,000 credit transactions and payment transactions with hundreds of Native peoples, many listed with their own names, who purchased merchandise on credit from Evert Wendell (1681-1750) and his relatives in Albany, NY. This book has been praised as a major addition to the literature on the pre-American Revolutionary fur trade, challenging many widely held interpretations and providing previously unrevealed insights.
Price: $39.99
Pages: 310
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Lightning Rod Press
Publication Date:
01 January 2008
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9781606189122
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / Indigenous / General, HISTORY / Indigenous / Colonial History & Interaction with Nations, Tribes, Bands & Communities
"One has to be particularly impressed with the level of detail extracted from the accounts..."
— Ann M. Carlos
"The account book of Evert Wendell makes its first outing as a translated work. … Much can be learned from the transactions between Wendell and his customers, such as the role of women in the fur trade, the diversity of native customers, relationships among native people, adoption and slavey among the Indians, and the wide range of goods exchanged. The editor has done much to highlight these insights… Kees-Jan Waterman has had long experience in researching New Netherland and native affairs there … and includes an important analysis and exposition of intercultural interaction and trade. … Along with Waterman’s introduction, this account book is a treasure trove of information on native people at the turn of the eighteenth century."
— Paul Otto
"Waterman’s translation opens the door to a more thorough, even intimate, understanding of the fur trade and the turn of the century economies of colonial New York and the native people resident in the region."
— William A. Starna
— Ann M. Carlos
"The account book of Evert Wendell makes its first outing as a translated work. … Much can be learned from the transactions between Wendell and his customers, such as the role of women in the fur trade, the diversity of native customers, relationships among native people, adoption and slavey among the Indians, and the wide range of goods exchanged. The editor has done much to highlight these insights… Kees-Jan Waterman has had long experience in researching New Netherland and native affairs there … and includes an important analysis and exposition of intercultural interaction and trade. … Along with Waterman’s introduction, this account book is a treasure trove of information on native people at the turn of the eighteenth century."
— Paul Otto
"Waterman’s translation opens the door to a more thorough, even intimate, understanding of the fur trade and the turn of the century economies of colonial New York and the native people resident in the region."
— William A. Starna
Kees-Jan Waterman (1926—2018) was a historian, translator, digital data expert, and world-recognized scholar on interactions between Native American and European peoples in colonial North America with a specialization in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. A Jacob Leisler Institute trustee, his publications include “To Do Justice to Him and Myself”: Evert Wendell’s Account Book of the Fur Trade with Indians in Albany, New York, 1695-1726 (2008) and Munsee Indian Trade in Ulster County New York, 1712-1732 (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors) (2013).