Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Ann M. Carlos
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Description for Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
Commerce by a Frozen Sea is 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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812242317
SKU
V9780812242317
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99-1
About Ann M. Carlos
Ann M. Carlos is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and University College, Dublin. Frank D. Lewis is Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Ontario.
Reviews for Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
"A well-researched and deftly written economic history of the eighteenth-century fur trade."
Timothy Shannon, Gettysburg College
"Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis, economic historians with a flair for anthropology and ethnohistory, . . are interested in the enthusiastic involvement of Native Americans who 'chose to spend time in the fur trade in order to acquire' European goods. ... Read more
Timothy Shannon, Gettysburg College
"Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis, economic historians with a flair for anthropology and ethnohistory, . . are interested in the enthusiastic involvement of Native Americans who 'chose to spend time in the fur trade in order to acquire' European goods. ... Read more