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      Colonialism, Consumption, and Control: The Illinois Country Liquor Trade, 1750-1803

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      Date
      2017-08-18
      Author
      Derksen, Samuel D 1992-
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The liquor trade has been a popular topic of study for many historians examining colonial North America. Due to the detrimental impact alcohol had on Indigenous societies, this historiography has focused on the relationship between Indigenous drinking, cultural degradation, and demographic destitution, which contributed to the establishment of European hegemony in North America. Breaking away from this Euro-centric narrative, this thesis uses liquor as an analytical lens to re-evaluate how colonial society functioned on the ground over the Illinois Country’s successive French, Spanish, British, and American regimes between 1750 and 1803. This examination of the liquor trade reveals that despite colonial discourses of superiority, colonial authority was restricted in the Illinois Country. Colonized Indigenous and French Creole inhabitants retained the power to shape the Illinois Country’s organization and development over the region’s four colonial regimes.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      History
      Program
      History
      Supervisor
      Englebert, Robert
      Committee
      Westman, Clinton; Smith-Norris, Martha; Labelle, Maurice Jr. M.; Neufeld, Matthew
      Copyright Date
      October 2017
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8026
      Subject
      liquor
      liquor trade
      Illinois Country
      Native-Newcomer Relations
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