Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World Sleeper-Smith Susan
Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World Sleeper-Smith Susan Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North…
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Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World Sleeper-Smith Susan
Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 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. 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.
The initial essays explain the working mechanisms of the fur trade and explore how and why it evolved in a North Atlantic context. The Rethinking the Fur Trade exposes what has been called the "invisible hand of indigenous commerce," revealing how it changed European interaction with Indians, influenced what was produced to serve the interests of Indian customers, and led to important cultural innovations.