Commerce by a Frozen Sea : : Native Americans and the European Fur Trade / / Frank D. Lewis, Ann M. Carlos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Carlos, Ann M.,; Lewis, Frank D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 25 illus.

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, de...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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
• Appendix A. Fur Prices, Beaver Skins Traded, and the Simulated Beaver Population at Fort Albany, York Factory, and Fort Churchill, 1700-1763
• Appendix B. Simulating the Beaver Population
• Appendix C. A Model of Harvesting Large Game: Joint Ownership Versus Competition
• Appendix D. Food and the Relative Incomes of Native Americans and English Workers
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments