ISBN: 9780812242317

Description: viii, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade
• Hats and the European Fur Market
• The Hudson's Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade
• Indians as Consumers
• The Decline of Beaver Populations
• Industrious Indians
• Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival
• Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age?
• The Fur Trade and Economic Development.

LCCN: 2009044824

Control Number: 817797

Subjects:

• Europeans -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
• Fur trade -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
• Hudson Bay Region -- Commerce -- History.
• Hudson Bay Region -- Ethnic relations.
• Hudson's Bay Company -- History.
• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Commerce -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.

Other Authors: Lewis, Frank D.