‘The faithfulness of our dealings’: the correspondence between George Simpson and Ferdinand von Wrangell, 1838–48

Polar Record ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (207) ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
Ian R. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company ◽  
Business Methods

AbstractBy an agreement in 1839, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Russian American Company established a framework for co-operation in their activities in Alaska and adjacent areas of Canada that lasted until the 1860s. The signatories to the agreement were George Simpson and Ferdinand von Wrangell. These men were prominent in the management of the co-operation and this was facilitated by their mutual trust and friendship. An examination of their correspondence affords insights into business methods in a cross-cultural environment in the mid-nineteenth century, and into the extent to which their personal relations influenced major decisions in economics and politics with regard to the areas of activity of both companies.

Discouraging the Use of a Common Resource: The Crees of Saskatchewan

1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Harper-Fender
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Study ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Economic Adjustment ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Common Resource ◽  
Fur Traders ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

The Crees of Saskatchewan adjusted their economic life in reaction to their long and interdependent relationship with European fur traders. For the period from the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, this paper examines one aspect of the Crees' economic adjustment to the fur trade, the limiting of access to the land and its resources to conserve the fragile supply of furbearmg animals. Hudson's Bay Company documents and studies by anthropologists provide the basis for this economic study.

scholarly journals From Rupert’s Land to Canada West: Hudson’s Bay Company Families and Representations of Indigeneity in Small-Town Ontario, 1840–1980

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-97
Author(s):  
Krista Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Trading Posts ◽  
Rupert's Land ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company ◽  
Canada West

By the mid-nineteenth century, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) officers were retiring in greater numbers with their Indigenous families outside Rupert’s Land. Much work has been done to uncover the experiences of fur trade families who remained at HBC trading posts or settled in what became the American and Canadian Wests, but there has been little research on those families who left for Britain or colonial Canada. In Canada West, the racial and gendered terrains of their new home communities were complex ones for Indigenous women and their children to navigate. They played roles in both the reification and subversion of racial and gendered imperial hierarchies, and thus came to occupy unexpected and even contradictory positions in family and local historical narratives.

СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ СЕТИ НА УРОКАХ РКИ КАК СРЕДСТВО ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИ

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(80)) ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
A. Sehpeyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Creative Tasks

With the advent of modern Internet technologies, the ways of teaching Russian as a foreign language are changing rapidly. Social networks become part of the educational process and serve as a tool for creating new creative tasks aimed at developing cross-cultural competence. Modern technologies help to prepare students to communicate with representatives of other cultures, create situations that are close to those that exist in the natural cultural environment. This article discusses ways to use social networks to develop cross-cultural competence.

South Sea Tales

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
South Sea ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Material

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of ‘The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of ‘The Bottle Imp’ and ‘The Isle of Voices’, and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

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