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- Title
Sea Otters and Iron: A Global Microhistory of Value and Exchange at Nootka Sound, 1774–1792.
- Authors
Berg, Maxine
- Abstract
The article offers a global microhistory of the years 1774-1792 at Nootka Sound, exploring exchanges that took place between European merchants and the indigenous people that resided there, the Mowachaht. Much of this commercial exchange was an exchange of sea-otter furs for iron and copper. The author describes what is global about this study: research into a long-distance trade of an individual commodity and what is a micro-analysis: the exploration of a specific locality.
- Subjects
NOOTKA Sound (B.C.); WORLD history; MICROHISTORY; CANADIAN history, 1755-1763; CANADIAN history, 1763-1791; CANADIAN history, 1791-1841; MOWACHAHT (North American people)
- Publication
Past & Present, 2019, Vol 242, p50
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gtz038