Cover
Contents
Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Assumptions about the Other
1. Empty Dishes and Days of Feasting: Human Habitation of Arctic North America to 1550
2. Strangers Are Necessarily Hostile: War and the Protection of Resources, 1550–1670
3. Fear when Winter Comes: Migration and the Search for Resources, 1670–1700
4. The Lands around My Dwelling: Strategies for Social Environments, 1700–1790
5. The Degree of Cold: Subsistence and Survival, 1790–1830
6. Memories of Hunger: Windfalls, Surplus, and Scarcity, 1830–1860
7. Skin for Soles, Moss for Wicks: The Search for Predictability, 1860–1940
8. The Experience of Dead Generations: Social Organization, Worldview, and Survival
Appendixes
Endnotes
Bibliography
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