Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for Control of the Intercontinental Bering Strait Fur Trade (The Lamar Series in Western History) - Hardcover

Bockstoce, John R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300149212 ISBN 13: 9780300149210

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2009

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Book by Bockstoce Dr John R

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"'What Bockstoce has produced is a worthy companion-volume to his earlier work, Whales, Ice, and Men, which is recognized as being the definitive source on the history of American whaling in the Western arctic.' William Barr, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary 'Furs and Frontiers in the Far North is a comprehensive history of the international trade in furs.' Ernest Burch, Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution"

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This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and America and was an agent of massive change in these regions. Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial, and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided them with fur, ivory, and whalebone in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol, and hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the enterprising individuals who energized the Alaskan fur trade and, in doing so, forever altered the region's history.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300149212
• ISBN 13: 9780300149210
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496