Bitter Feast

Denys Delage is a professor in the departments of Sociology and History at Laval University in Quebec City. In 1986, he was awarded the Prix Lionel-Groulx for the French edition of this book. Jane Brierley (translator) is a Montreal literary translator who won the 1990 Governor General's award for her translation of Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe's Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsMaps1. Europe in Transition at the Heart of an Economic World-System2. North America Before European Settlement3. The Question of Unequal Exchange4. Huronia and Iroquoia5. Conquer America and Conquer the Atlantic6. The Rebirth of European Societies in North AmericaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Delage's arguments are diverse, elegantly constructed, and based on a wide range of respectable interpretative concepts ... The originality of his work lies in the diversity of material that he synthesizes and the structure that he gives to his subject matter. - Bruce G. Trigger (Culture) Bitter Feast is a welcome and important contribution to 17th-century studies. All serious students of Canadian history should regard it as essential. - J.R. Miller (Canadian Book Review Annual) It is engrossing, enlightening and even lively reading. It is easy to see why the book was a prize winner when it first appeared in 1985. It will be a long time before a more comprehensive and readable work on the fur trade appears. - Virginia P. Miller (Anthropologica)