In North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, Colpitts analyzes the imaginative and intellectual response of Europeans to their expanding trade relations with America's people in the period of colonization.
George Colpitts, Ph.D. (2000), University of Alberta, is an historian at the University of Calgary. He has published numerous articles on the fur trade and the book, Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 (UBC, 2001).