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Informationen zum Autor Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis Klappentext 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.Commerce by a Frozen Sea reveals Native Americans as industrious people and effective traders who achieved a standard of living in the eighteenth century higher than most workers in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
