Author: Ann M. Carlos
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812204824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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. The trade gave Native Americans access to new European technologies that were integrated into Indian lifeways. What emerges from this detailed exploration is a story of two equal partners involved in a mutually beneficial trade. Drawing on more than seventy years of trade records from the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company, economic historians Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis critique and confront many of the myths commonly held about the nature and impact of commercial trade. Extensively documented are the ways in which natives transformed the trading environment and determined the range of goods offered to them. Natives were effective bargainers who demanded practical items such as firearms, kettles, and blankets as well as luxuries like cloth, jewelry, and tobacco—goods similar to those purchased by Europeans. Surprisingly little alcohol was traded. Indeed, Commerce by a Frozen Sea shows that natives were industrious people who achieved a standard of living above that of most workers in Europe. Although they later fell behind, the eighteenth century was, for Native Americans, a golden age.
Commerce by a Frozen Sea
Author: Ann M. Carlos
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812204824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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. The trade gave Native Americans access to new European technologies that were integrated into Indian lifeways. What emerges from this detailed exploration is a story of two equal partners involved in a mutually beneficial trade. Drawing on more than seventy years of trade records from the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company, economic historians Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis critique and confront many of the myths commonly held about the nature and impact of commercial trade. Extensively documented are the ways in which natives transformed the trading environment and determined the range of goods offered to them. Natives were effective bargainers who demanded practical items such as firearms, kettles, and blankets as well as luxuries like cloth, jewelry, and tobacco—goods similar to those purchased by Europeans. Surprisingly little alcohol was traded. Indeed, Commerce by a Frozen Sea shows that natives were industrious people who achieved a standard of living above that of most workers in Europe. Although they later fell behind, the eighteenth century was, for Native Americans, a golden age.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812204824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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. The trade gave Native Americans access to new European technologies that were integrated into Indian lifeways. What emerges from this detailed exploration is a story of two equal partners involved in a mutually beneficial trade. Drawing on more than seventy years of trade records from the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company, economic historians Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis critique and confront many of the myths commonly held about the nature and impact of commercial trade. Extensively documented are the ways in which natives transformed the trading environment and determined the range of goods offered to them. Natives were effective bargainers who demanded practical items such as firearms, kettles, and blankets as well as luxuries like cloth, jewelry, and tobacco—goods similar to those purchased by Europeans. Surprisingly little alcohol was traded. Indeed, Commerce by a Frozen Sea shows that natives were industrious people who achieved a standard of living above that of most workers in Europe. Although they later fell behind, the eighteenth century was, for Native Americans, a golden age.
Commercial Cosmopolitanism?
Author: Felicia Gottmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100035380X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday practice across the globe. The early modern era saw hitherto unprecedented levels of economic interconnectedness. States, societies, and individuals reacted with a mixture of commercial idealism and commercial anxiety, seeking at once to exploit new opportunities for growth whilst limiting its disruptive effects. In highlighting the range of commercial cosmopolitan practices that grew out of early modern globalisation, the book demonstrates that it provided robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of the later period. Deploying a number of interdisciplinary methodologies, the kind of ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ that Ulrich Beck has called for, chapters provide agency-centred evaluations of the risks and opportunities inherent in the ambiguous role of the cosmopolitan, who, often playing on and mobilising a number of identities, operated in between and outside of different established legal, social, and cultural systems. The book will be important reading for students and scholars working at the intersection of economic, global, and cultural history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100035380X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday practice across the globe. The early modern era saw hitherto unprecedented levels of economic interconnectedness. States, societies, and individuals reacted with a mixture of commercial idealism and commercial anxiety, seeking at once to exploit new opportunities for growth whilst limiting its disruptive effects. In highlighting the range of commercial cosmopolitan practices that grew out of early modern globalisation, the book demonstrates that it provided robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of the later period. Deploying a number of interdisciplinary methodologies, the kind of ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ that Ulrich Beck has called for, chapters provide agency-centred evaluations of the risks and opportunities inherent in the ambiguous role of the cosmopolitan, who, often playing on and mobilising a number of identities, operated in between and outside of different established legal, social, and cultural systems. The book will be important reading for students and scholars working at the intersection of economic, global, and cultural history.
The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"
Author: Albert Hastings Markham
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
International Commerce
The Organization of Ocean Commerce
Author: Joseph Russell Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Book of Commerce by Sea & Land ...
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce
Author: Jacques Savary des Brûlons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Foreign Trade Statistics Notes
United States Court of International Trade Reports
Author: United States Court of International Trade
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160922527
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
This historical legal reference includes the international trade cases reported with opinions of the Court from January through December 2010. Small businesses, mid-size to large corporation international trade and compliance office personnel that engage in international trade with their products and services may be interested in this volume as well as their attorneys. Students enrolled in Economics of International Trade and Finance courses as well as law courses for Internatioal Trade Law may also be interested in this volume for research papers. Other print volumes in the U.S. Court of International Trade Reports can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/laws-regulations/court-cases-documents-us-court-international-trade/us-court-international-t Basic Guide to Exporting: Official U.S. Government Resource for Small and Medium Sized Businesses, 11th edition can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/003-009-00741-1
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160922527
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
This historical legal reference includes the international trade cases reported with opinions of the Court from January through December 2010. Small businesses, mid-size to large corporation international trade and compliance office personnel that engage in international trade with their products and services may be interested in this volume as well as their attorneys. Students enrolled in Economics of International Trade and Finance courses as well as law courses for Internatioal Trade Law may also be interested in this volume for research papers. Other print volumes in the U.S. Court of International Trade Reports can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/laws-regulations/court-cases-documents-us-court-international-trade/us-court-international-t Basic Guide to Exporting: Official U.S. Government Resource for Small and Medium Sized Businesses, 11th edition can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/003-009-00741-1