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Trade Politics and Native Polities in Iroquoia and Asante

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Kit W. Wesler
Kit W. Wesler
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Murray State University
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The expansion of Western influence during and after the fifteenth century was a pervasive phenomenon. European seamen, traders, and settlers set off one of the most widespread and complex processes of cultural contact and transfer in human history. Students of acculturation are thus presented with a unique opportunity for controlled observation, that of keeping one variable—the culture of Western Europe—relatively constant while allowing others to range widely. European traders carried much the same cultural baggage, material and conceptual, whether they travelled to the Americas, Asia, or the East Indies, but the cultures they encountered and with which they interacted covered a wide spectrum of human conditions.

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The Third World Trader
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 641 - 660
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1983

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