Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade

by Frank Lewis, Ann M. Carlos, Frank D. Lewis

Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their European trading partners were brought together by an increasingly popular trade in furs, destined for the hat and fur markets of Europe. Native Americans were the sole trappers of furs, which they traded to English and French merchants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242319
• ISBN13: 9780812242317
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"