Fur, fortune, and empire : the epic history of the fur trade in America / Eric Jay Dolin.
Fur, fortune, and empire : the epic history of the fur trade in America / Eric Jay Dolin.
Fur, fortune, and empire : the epic history of the fur trade in America / Eric Jay Dolin.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
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N381.45685/1
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English
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xvii, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Furs settle the New World -- "As fine a river as can be found" -- The precious beaver -- New Amsterdam rising -- "The Bible and the beaver" -- pt. 2. Clash of empires -- Competition, conflict, and chicanery -- "Many hounds are the hare's death" -- Adieu to the French -- Americans oust the Bri...
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2010.
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For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the d...
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Fur, fortune, and empire : the epic history of the fur trade in America / Eric Jay Dolin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-411) and index.
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c2010.
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N381.45685/1
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74VvqvKOPB3g
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0393067106
9780393067101
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381.456850973
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991006155989702626
