1670-1850 (Temporal Keyword)
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From Beaver Pelt to Hatters' Felt: The Use and Impact of Canadian Beaver on Britain (2015)
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Historians and archaeologists in North America have expended much energy studying the fur trade. The role which beaver played in this is especially well discussed, and the importance that it had to European expansion into the North American interior has been thoroughly examined. The same cannot be said for what happened to the goods Europeans acquired once they took them back to Europe. Beaver, and the other Hudson’s Bay Company imports, had social and economic impacts on the British end of...