Commerce by a frozen sea : Native Americans and the European fur trade /

Commerce by a frozen sea : Native Americans and the European fur trade / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis.

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"Commerce by a Frozen Seais a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their European trading partners were brought together by an increasingly popular trade in fur...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Carlos, Ann M. (Ann Martina), 1952-
Other Authors: Lewis, Frank D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Hudson's Bay Company > History.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Europeans > Hudson Bay Region > History.
Fur trade > Hudson Bay Region > History.
Indians of North America > Commerce > Hudson Bay Region > History.
Commerce.
Ethnic relations.
Europeans.
Fur trade.
Indians of North America > Commerce.
Hudson Bay Region > Ethnic relations.
Hudson Bay Region > Commerce > History.
Hudson Bay Region.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade
  • Hats and the European Fur Market
  • The Hudsons Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade
  • Indians as Consumers
  • The Decline of Beaver Populations
  • Industrious Indians
  • Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival
  • Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age?
  • The Fur Trade and Economic Development.

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