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Rethinking the fur trade

by Susan Sleeper-Smith

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"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.

Fur tradeEconomic conditionsHistoryIndians of north america, commerceIndians of north america, first contact with europeansIndian women, north america