North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1.Commerce and Imagination in America's Indian Trade; 2. Europe and the Gift Economies in North America; 3. European Market Places in Early America; 4. The Church and Just Price; 5.Commerce in America; 6. Gifts in the Commercializing Indian Trade; 7. Animating Industriousness; 8. From Commerce to Treaties; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, Colpitts analyzes the imaginative and intellectual response of Europeans to their expanding trade relations with America's people in the period of colonization
