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Rethinking the fur trade : cultures of exchange in an Atlantic world / edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith.

Contributor(s): Sleeper-Smith, SusanMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln, [Neb.] ; London : University of Nebraska Press, c2009Description: lxii, 638 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780803243293 (pbk.) :; 0803243294 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Fur trade -- North America -- History | -- 18th century | North America Industry. -- Economic conditions | North America -- HistoryDDC classification: 382.4'5685'097 Summary: Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book offers a nuanced look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade, a phenomenon that has often been oversimplified and misrepresented.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book offers a nuanced look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade, a phenomenon that has often been oversimplified and misrepresented.

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