Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations

by George T. Hunt

Overview

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299001643
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	04/15/1960
Edition description:	1
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

George T. Hunt was professor of history at Case Western Reserve University.

Table of Contents

I. The Problem of the Iroquois

II. Before the Conquest

III. The Iroquois, 1609-1640

IV. The Hurons and Their Neighbors

V. The Huron Trading Empire

VI. Iroquois and Hurons

VII. The Great Dispersion

VIII. The Upper Canada and Michigan Tribes

IX. The Wisconsin Tribes

X. The Susquehannah War

XI. The War in the Illinois Country

Appendix A: The Dutch Trade in Firearms with the Iroquois

Appendix B: The French Trade in Firearms

Appendix C: The Peace of 1653

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Peaceful efforts to reach a controlling interest in this [fur] trade failing, the Iroquois embarked on a career of conquest."-- Pennsylvania History

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