Give Us Good Measure : : An economic analysis of relations between the Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company before 1763 / / Arthur Ray, Donald B. Freeman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ray, Arthur,; Freeman, Donald B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Figures --; Tables --; Preface --; PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY FUR TRADE --; 1. Fur trade history --; 2. European and Indian cultures at the time of contact --; 3. The fur trade before 1670 --; 4. The struggle between the English and the French for the Hudson Bay fur trade --; PART TWO: THE SPATIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY TRADING NETWORK --; 5. The inland trading network of the Hudson's Bay Company --; 6. Fur trading institutions --; 7. The factor and the trading captain --; PART THREE: THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF THE FUR TRADE SYSTEM: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS --; 8. Analytical objectives and approach --; 9. The early Hudson's Bay Company account books --; 10. Variables and methods of analysis --; 11. The terms of trade --; 12. Variations in exchange rates and levels of competition --; 13. Trade expenses, factors' gains, and competition --; 14. The Indians' responses --; PART FOUR: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC THEORY: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THIS STUDY --; 15. Trade and politics: a reinterpretation --; 16. Economic dimensions of the trade --; 17. The Hudson Bay fur trade as a spatial system: conclusions, and implications for comparative economic geography --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487574628; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487574628
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arthur Ray, Donald B. Freeman.

Throughout most of the pre-confederation period the fur trade dominated the life of Indians and Europeans alike. Arthur Ray’s earlier book, Indians in the Fur Trade, studied the role of the Indians as they responded to the changing environmental and economic conditions between 1660 and 1870. ‘Give Us Good Measure’ concentrates on the early contact between the Indians and the Hudson’s Bay Company. It offers a path-breaking analysis of the differing European and Indian economic customs and the ways in which the two cultural groups accommodated their differences in order to establish a long-lasting partnership. The authors also examine the way in which the partnership responded to changing economic conditions around Hudson Bay. The book’s approach is innovative in several ways. Extensive use is made of Hudson’s Aby Company business records, little-studied sources which have proved to be highly illuminating. The data have been subjected to a variety of statistical treatments in an effort to obtain new understandings of the economic behaviour of European and Indian traders alike. In assessing their findings, the authors consider whether models drawn from comparative economics, economic anthropology, and economic geography provide any new and useful insights into trading relations that developed between European and Indians before 1763. The book’s clear focus and wide-ranging perspective result in a fresh and important reassessment of early Canadian history.