Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
by George T. Hunt
University of Wisconsin Press, 1960
ISBNs
Paper: 978-0-299-00164-3
eISBN: 978-0-299-00163-6 (PDF)
About the Book
Back in print.
George T. Hunt’s classic 1940 study of the Iroquois during the middle and late seventeenth century presents warfare as a result of depletion of natural resources in the Iroquois homeland and tribal efforts to assume the role of middlemen in the fur trade between the Indians to the west and the Europeans.
George T. Hunt’s classic 1940 study of the Iroquois during the middle and late seventeenth century presents warfare as a result of depletion of natural resources in the Iroquois homeland and tribal efforts to assume the role of middlemen in the fur trade between the Indians to the west and the Europeans.
About the Author
George T. Hunt was professor of history at Case Western Reserve University.
Reviews
"Peaceful efforts to reach a controlling interest in this [fur] trade failing, the Iroquois embarked on a career of conquest."— Pennsylvania History
Tags
Indigenous, History
Open Access Information
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
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