Ann M Carlos, Frank D Lewis

Commerce by a Frozen Sea

Native Americans and the European Fur Trade

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ann M. Carlos is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and University College, Dublin. Frank D. Lewis is Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Ontario.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242317
• ISBN-10: 0812242319
• Artikelnr.: 28524010

Autorenporträt

Ann M. Carlos is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and University College, Dublin. Frank D. Lewis is Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth-Century Fur
Trade
1. Hats and the European Fur Market
2. The Hudson's Bay Company and the Organization of the Fur Trade
3. Indians as Consumers
4. The Decline of Beaver Populations
5. Industrious Indians
6. Property Rights, Depletion, and Survival
7. Indians and the Fur Trade: A Golden Age?
Epilogue. The Fur Trade and Economic Development
Appendixes
A. Fur Prices, Beaver Skins Traded, and the Simulated Beaver Population at
Fort Albany, York Factory, and Fort Churchill, 1700-1763 189
B. Simulating the Beaver Population
C. A Model of Harvesting Large Game: Joint Ownership Versus Competition
D. Food and the Relative Incomes of Native Americans and English Workers
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments