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

Carlos, Ann M. (Ann Martina) 1952- (Author). Lewis, Frank D. (Added Author).

Summary: "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 furs, destined for the hat and fur markets of Europe. Native Americans were the sole trappers of furs, which they traded to English and French merchants. The trade gave Native Americans access to new European technologies that were integrated into Indian lifeways. What emerges from this detailed exploration is a story of two equal partners involved in a mutually beneficial trade.

Record details

ISBN: 0812242319
ISBN: 9780812242317 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0812242319 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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