Fur, fortune, and empire : the epic history of the fur trade in America
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780393340020, 0393340023
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Stowe Free Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 381 DOLIN | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Europe -- Colonies -- America.
Europeans -- North America -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- North America.
Fur trade -- North America -- History.
Fur trade -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Imperialism -- History.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- European.
North America -- Economic conditions.
North America -- Ethnic relations.
North America -- History.
Europeans -- North America -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- North America.
Fur trade -- North America -- History.
Fur trade -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Imperialism -- History.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- European.
North America -- Economic conditions.
North America -- Ethnic relations.
North America -- History.
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.
Physical Desc
xvii, 442 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780393340020, 0393340023
Notes
General Note
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411) and index.
Description
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 developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a seemingly inexhaustible resource. The result was a major boost in the evolution of the colonies into a powerful new player on the world stage. Dolin sheds insight on the ways the fur trade created international tensions--in New England, the Great Lakes, and in the expanding West. Fur traders were often the first white men to map major rivers, forests, and mountains, then soon pushed Native Americans off their lands as John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company attempted to monopolize the West.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dolin, E. J. (2010). Fur, fortune, and empire: the epic history of the fur trade in America . W.W. Norton & Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dolin, Eric Jay. 2010. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. W.W. Norton & Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America W.W. Norton & Co, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
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