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.

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 U...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1978
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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