Most Pernicious Thing
Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact Period
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1994
- Subjects
- Native American
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773573864
- Publish Date
- May 1994
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Description
The author challenges the myth of trade dependence which has pervaded histories of this period, by proving the superiority of native weapons over matchlock muskets. A fascinating argument on a contentious ethno-historical issue.