UID:
edocfu_9958352310202883
Format:
1 online resource (264 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812204827
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade --
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Chapter 1. Hats and the European Fur Market --
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Chapter 2. The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade --
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Chapter 3. Indians as Consumers --
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Chapter 4. The Decline of Beaver Populations --
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Chapter 5. Industrious Indians --
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Chapter 6. Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival --
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Chapter 7. Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age? --
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Epilogue. The Fur Trade and Economic Development --
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Appendix A. Fur Prices, Beaver Skins Traded, and the Simulated Beaver Population at Fort Albany, York Factory, and Fort Churchill, 1700–1763 --
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Appendix B. Simulating the Beaver Population --
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Appendix C. A Model of Harvesting Large Game: Joint Ownership Versus Competition --
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Appendix D. Food and the Relative Incomes of Native Americans and English Workers --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204827
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204827
