| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Book Review

Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. By Carolyn Podruchny. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxiii + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, £22.95, paper.)

In 1931, Grace Nute published The Voyageur (New York), an idealized portrait that became the authoritative account of this distinct class of laborers on whose backs and arms the fur trade was carried into the northwestern interior. Though Carolyn Podruchny only mentions Nute in passing, Making the Voyageur World owes a great deal to Nute's work, both as a model and anti-model. Both authors eschew chronology for a thematic approach and both are massively descriptive. But where Nute presented the stereotypical voyageur, Podruchny sees diversity, and where Nute was prosaic, Podruchny is deliberately theoretical. Besides the obvious reference to E. P. Thompson in the title, Podruchny peppers her analysis with references to Victor Turner, Arnold Van Gennep, Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Pierre Bourdieu. In doing so, she has written an informative, engaging portrait of the voyageur world that will become the standard treatment for the present age.

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