Rethinking the fur trade

Description:

"Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rethinking the Fur Trade offers a nuanced look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade, a phenomenon that has often been oversimplified and misrepresented. These essays show how the role of Native Americans was far more instrumental in the conduct and outcome of the fur trade than previously suggested.

subjects: Fur trade,  Economic conditions,  History,  Indians of north america, commerce,  Indians of north america, first contact with europeans,  Indian women, north america

Places: North America

Times: 17th century,  18th century