By Ann M. Carlos
Commerce by means of a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural examine of a century of touch among North American local peoples and Europeans. through the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their ecu buying and selling companions have been introduced jointly by way of an more and more renowned alternate in furs, destined for the hat and fur markets of Europe. local american citizens have been the only trappers of furs, which they traded to English and French retailers. The alternate gave local americans entry to new eu applied sciences that have been built-in into Indian lifeways. What emerges from this special exploration is a narrative of 2 equivalent companions occupied with a jointly priceless trade.
Drawing on greater than seventy years of exchange files from the information of the Hudson's Bay corporation, financial historians Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis critique and confront a few of the myths ordinarily held in regards to the nature and impression of business alternate. generally documented are the ways that natives reworked the buying and selling surroundings and made up our minds the diversity of products provided to them. Natives have been potent bargainers who demanded functional goods similar to firearms, kettles, and blankets in addition to luxuries like textile, jewellery, and tobacco—goods just like these bought via Europeans. unusually little alcohol used to be traded. certainly, Commerce by means of a Frozen Sea exhibits that natives have been industrious those who completed a typical of residing above that of so much staff in Europe. even if they later fell in the back of, the eighteenth century used to be, for local americans, a golden age.
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