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Most Pernicious Thing

Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact Period
By:Brian J. Given
Publisher:ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
Print ISBN:9780886292225
eText ISBN:9780773573864
Edition:0
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.