Presidential Address: Eighteenth-Century Indian Trading Villages in the Wabash River Valley

Ethnohistory ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-371
Author(s):  
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Wabash River

Picturing Prosperity

2018 ◽  
pp. 162-209
Author(s):  
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
Ohio River Valley ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Western Great Lakes ◽  
Crucial Part

This chapter examines the stereotypes associated with the fur trade and contends that, in the Ohio River valley, an Indian-controlled fur trade was associated with increased levels of prosperity. This chapter also analyzes the types of trade goods transported into the Ohio region and shows how cloth became the most desirable object of trade. Europeans wove cloth to meet specific Indian demands, and traders transmitted instructions detailing the color, style, and even the weave of cloth meant for Indian consumption. By the mid-eighteenth century, luxury goods became a crucial part of the trade, and when the Seven Years’ War ended, the fur trade entered an expansionary period. Detroit emerged as one of the most prosperous fur trade posts in the western Great Lakes. This chapter is filled with dramatic illustrations of how cloth was transformed into the increasingly elaborate dress that characterized the diverse Indigenous people who lived in this region.

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
Ohio River Valley ◽  
American Indian Women ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Wabash River ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Diverse World ◽  
Village Life

Examines the Ohio River valley though an environmental lens and explores the role that American Indian women played in creating a sedentary agrarian village world in this rich and fertile landscape. Focuses on the crescent of Indian communities located along the banks of the Wabash River valley, a major Ohio tributary, to trace the evolution of the agrarian-trading nexus that shaped village life. The agricultural work of Indian women and their involvement in an Indian-controlled fur trade provides a glimpse into a flourishing village world that has escaped historical attention and refutes the notion that this region was continually torn asunder by warfare. Trade and diplomacy allowed Indians to successfully control the Ohio River valley until the late eighteenth century, with neither the French nor the British exercising hegemony over these lands. Instead, Indians incorporated numerous Europeans and vast numbers of Indian refugees into their highly diverse world, enabling different Algonquian-speaking Indians to live adjacent to and with each other, eventually paving the way for the Pan-Indian Confederacies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Indian world that Americans encountered in the 1780s was an Indian-controlled landscape that they had long defended from repeated foreign intrusions, not the middle ground of fragmented Native groups associated with imperial contact. Until the crushing defeat at Fallen Timbers in 1794, Indians believed that Americans were another wave of intruders that could be repulsed.

Presidential Address: The Treaty of Seville (1729)

1933 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lodge
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Special Study ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
Minor Problem ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Senior Colleague

The first impulse to make a special study of the Treaty of Seville came from my interest in the career of that eminent diplomatist, Benjamin Keene, on whom I discoursed at some length last February. But at that time my attention was concentrated upon Keene's second mission to Spain from 1749 to 1757, and I only gave a very superficial glance at his earlier mission from 1727 to 1739. In reference to this I stated that he played an active part in bringing about the Treaty of Seville, that he was deposed at the last minute from being the sole English signatory of the treaty by the return of William Stanhope, and that he felt some chagrin because all the credit and reward for making that treaty went to his senior colleague, whereas he himself received no recognition of his services. There was no doubt about his discontent, because I found frank expression of it in his letters, but I was curious to ascertain how far this discontent was justified. The study of this minor problem led me on to consider the importance of the treaty in the history of Europe. I came to the conclusion that it was a notable landmark in the rather tangled diplomacy of the second and third decades of the eighteenth century. The tangle arose from the temporary dislocation of interstate relations in Europe from normal into abnormal grooves, and a prominent cause of that dislocation was that national interests were largely superseded or overshadowed by dynastic claims and uncertainties.

Pre-1860 Responses to Change Views of the Public Good

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Cumbler
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
The People ◽  
Public Nuisance ◽  
Dam Site ◽  
The Right

Timothy and Theodore Dwight saw the coming of the mills and manufacturing as an example of industry and energy among the people of New England. The Dwights looked at the development of industrialization in New England at its early stages. For them, mills and manufacturing signified increased wealth and employment, a belief shared by many New Englanders. Theodore Lyman III believed that without manufacturing, New England would be poor, miserly, and ignorant. Not all New Englanders were as optimistic about manufacturing, but those who were had the support of the courts, and significant influence in the highest offices of the region. Nineteenth-century New Englanders of all stripes realized that a rural agrarian society was giving way to an urban industrial society. They understood that this transformation not only affected the immediate environment of cities and towns but also reached into the surrounding countryside, to the farms along the river valley, up to the forests of the hills and mountains, and into the waters of the rivers, brooks, and streams that flowed awav from the factories, towns, and cities. Dams dotted the late eighteenth-century countryside. But the dams, even the small eighteenth-century ones, also flooded fields and blocked the migrating fish. In the eighteenth century, farmers and fishers whose fields were flooded by the mill dams or whose fishnets were empty because of a dam blocking the migration of anadromous fish often took direct action against the dams. The judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court noted that if a dam was seen as a common nuisance, “any individual of their private authority might tear it down at any season.” In 1799, Elijah Boardman and several of his Connecticut River Valley friends climbed onto Joseph Ruggles’s mill dam and ripped out the upper portion, which had raised the dam an additional ten inches and flooded fifty acres of land. Boardman admitted to destroying Ruggles’s dam but claimed the right to do so on the grounds that the dam was a public nuisance. In 1827, Oliver Moseley and twelve of his friends entered Horace White’s mill dam site and tore down the dam across the Agawam River, claiming that the dam was a nuisance.

Stopover duration of spring migrating dabbling ducks in the Wabash river valley

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Williams ◽  
Thomas J. Benson ◽  
Aaron P. Yetter ◽  
Joseph D. Lancaster ◽  
Heath M. Hagy
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Dabbling Ducks ◽  
Stopover Duration ◽  
Wabash River

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.J. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
North American ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Rich ◽  
To Come

AbstractTHESE addresses have been trying to explore the obvious paradox in eighteenth-century Britain's fortunes overseas: a North American empire, as I suggested last year, deeply rooted in the rich soil of a close-knit transatlantic community, was to come crashing down in the gale unleashed by the new imperial anxieties and ambitions of Britain's rulers. A British empire was, however, to be successfully planted in the unpromising terrain of alien Asian peoples. It is to the creation of this new Indian empire that I wish now to turn.

Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
British India ◽  
British Economy ◽  
Global Orientation ◽  
World Power ◽  
Die Forging ◽  
The World

By the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her European rivals could match. Not only did she rule a great empire, but the reach of expeditionary forces from either Britain itself or from British India stretched from the River Plate to the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. Britain's overseas trade had developed a strongly global orientation: she was die leading distributor of tropical produce diroughout die world and in the last years of the century about four-fifths of her exports were going outside Europe. Britain was at die centre of inter-continental movements of people, not only exporting her own population but shipping almost as many Africans across the Atantic during die eighteenth century as all the other carriers put together. It is not surprising therefore that British historians have searched for the qualities that marked out eighteeth-century Britain's exceptionalism on a world stage. Notable books have stressed, not only the dynamism of die British economy, but developments such as the rise of Britain's ‘fiscal-military state’ or die forging of a sense of British national identity behind war and empire overseas.

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