Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction 3
7. Money and Meaning under Settler Colonialism
8. Money: A Technology of Settler Colonialism 29
9. Imagining Money as a Threat in the 1820s and 1830s 59
10. The Formation of the Territorial State
11. Fur-Trade Money and the Coming of the State in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean 87
12. Treaty Money: A Symbol of Sovereignty in Western James Bay 112
13. Reserving Currency in Indigenous-State Relations
14. Land, Natural Resources, and Fiscal Control in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec 133
15. Relief, Rights, and Resources: State Control of Money in the Twentieth Century 157
16. Conclusion 189
17. Notes 197
18. Bibliography 265
19. Index 293