ISBN:
1283890984
,
9781283890984
,
9780812204827
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 260 p)
,
ill., maps
Parallel Title:
Print version Commerce by a Frozen Sea : Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
DDC:
305.8970714/111
Keywords:
Hudson's Bay Company History
;
Fur trade History
;
Europeans History
;
Indians of North America Commerce
;
History
;
Europeans ; Hudson Bay Region ; History
;
Fur trade ; Hudson Bay Region ; History
;
Hudson Bay Region ; Commerce ; History
;
Hudson Bay Region ; Ethnic relations
;
Hudson's Bay Company ; History
;
Indians of North America ; Commerce ; Hudson Bay Region ; History
;
Electronic books
;
Hudson Bay Region Commerce
;
History
;
Hudson Bay Region Ethnic relations
Abstract:
Commerce by a Frozen Sea reveals Native Americans as industrious people and effective traders who achieved a standard of living in the eighteenth century higher than most workers in Europe.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade -- Chapter 1. Hats and the European Fur Market -- Chapter 2. The Hudson's Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade -- Chapter 3. Indians as Consumers -- Chapter 4. The Decline of Beaver Populations -- Chapter 5. Industrious Indians -- Chapter 6. Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival -- Chapter 7. Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age? -- Epilogue. The Fur Trade and Economic Development -- Appendixes -- A. Fur Prices, Beaver Skins Traded, and the Simulated Beaver Population at Fort Albany, York Factory, and FortChurchill, 1700-1763 -- B.Simulating the Beaver Population -- C.A Model of Harvesting Large Game: Joint Ownership Versus Competition -- D.Food and the Relative Incomes of Native Americans and English Workers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction. Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade""; ""Chapter 1. Hats and the European Fur Market""; ""Chapter 2. The Hudson's Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade""; ""Chapter 3. Indians as Consumers""; ""Chapter 4. The Decline of Beaver Populations""; ""Chapter 5. Industrious Indians""; ""Chapter 6. Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival""; ""Chapter 7. Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age?""; ""Epilogue. The Fur Trade and Economic Development""; ""Appendixes ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""A. Fur Prices, Beaver Skins Traded, and the Simulated Beaver Population at Fort Albany, York Factory, and FortChurchill, 1700-1763 """"B.Simulating the Beaver Population""; ""C.A Model of Harvesting Large Game: Joint Ownership Versus Competition ""; ""D.Food and the Relative Incomes of Native Americans and English Workers""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index
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