Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: The Development of the Hudson's Bay Company Fur Trade: 1. Fur trade history
  • 2. European and Indian cultures at the time of contact
  • 3. The fur trade before 1670s
  • 4. The struggle between the English and the French for the Hudson Bay fur Trade Part Two: The Spatial and Institutional Structure of the Hudson's Bay Company Trading Network: 5. The inland trading network of the Hudson's Bay Company
  • 6. Fur trading institutions
  • 7. The factor and the trading captain Part Three: The Economic Structure of the Fur Trade System: A Quantitative Analysis
  • 8. Analytical objectives and approach
  • 9. The early Hudson's Bay Company account books 10. Variables and methods of analysis
  • 11. The terms of trade
  • 12. Variations in exchange rates and levels of competition
  • 13. Trade expenses, factors' gains, and competition
  • 14. The Indians' responses Part Four: Empirical Evidence and Comparative Economic Theory; Some Implications of this Study
  • 15. Trade and politics: a reinterpretation 16. Economic dimensions of the trade
  • 17. The Hudson Bay fur trade as a spatial system: conclusions, and implications for comparative economic geography