Most Pernicious Thing

Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact Period

By Brian J. Given
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773573864, 149 pages, May 1994
Paperback : 9780886292232, May 1994

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.