Commerce by a Frozen Sea. Native Americans and the European fur trade
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- Author(s) Carlos, Ann M, & Frank D Lewis
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 260pp
- Publisher Pennsylvania University Press
- Place Published Philadelphia PA
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work dealing with the 18th century North America fur trade with Europe, centred on the Hudson's Bay Co, and providing a focus on the interaction in it of Native Americans and Europeans. Chapters include: 'Introduction - Native Americans and Europeans in the eighteenth century fur trade' 'The Hudson's Bay Company and the organisation of the fur trade'; 'Indians as consumers'; 'Decline of the beaver population'; 'Industrious Indians'; 'Property rights, depletion and survival'; 'Indians and the fur trade - a golden age?'; 'Epilogue - the fur trade and economic development'