Selling Beaver Skins in North America and Europe, 1720-1760: The Uses of Fur-Trade Imperialism

Historians have tended to assume that, during the last decades of French rule in Canada, competition in the fur trade and the imperial contest in North America ran along the same lines. The posts of the rival empire on Hudson Bay or south of Lake Ontario are thought to have posed the main threat to...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
Main Author: Wien, Thomas
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada 1990
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Online Access:http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/031021ar
https://doi.org/10.7202/031021ar