Indians in the fur trade : their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
Record details
- ISBN: 0802041337 (bound)
- ISBN: 9780802041333 (bound)
- ISBN: 9780802079800 (pbk)
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Physical Description:
xxxiv, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, c1998, 1974.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "With a new introduction" -- T.p. verso. Reprinted 2014. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Illustrations -- Introduction to the 1998 edition: reflections on Indians in the fur trade -- Preface to the 1974 edition -- 1. Trade rivalries, inter-tribal warfare, and migration -- 2. Land and life in the western interior before 1763 -- 3. Traders and middlemen -- 4. Arms, brandy, beads, and sundries -- 5. Migrations, epidemics, and population changes, 1763-1821 -- 6. The destruction of fur and game animals -- 7. New economic opportunities -- 8. Economic dependency and the fur trade: contrasting trends -- 9. Land and life: a changing mosaic -- 10. The changing demographic picture after 1821 - 11. Declining opportunities in a changing fur trade -- 12. End of a way of life -- Select bibliography for the 1974 edition -- Index. |
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Merritt Campus | E78 C2 R4 1998 (Text) | 111272 | Regular Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
Merritt Campus | E78 C2 R4 1998 (Text) | 121036 | Regular Collection | Available | - | |
Merritt Campus | E78 C2 R4 1998 (Text) | 37100012543745 | Regular Collection | Available | - |