Fur, fortune, and empire, the epic history of the fur trade in America, Eric Jay Dolin
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Fur, fortune, and empire, the epic history of the fur trade in America, Eric Jay Dolin
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411) and index
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mapsplatesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Fur, fortune, and empire
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
449865266
Responsibility statement
Eric Jay Dolin
Sub title
the epic history of the fur trade in America
Summary
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
Table Of 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 British -- pt. 3. America heads West -- "A perfect golden round of profits" -- Up the Missouri -- Astoria -- Mountain men -- Taos trappers and Astor's empire -- Fall of the beaver -- The last robe -- Epilogue: End of an era
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- Imperialism + History
- Economic history
- Fur trade -- North America -- History
- Fur trade -- West (U.S.) -- History
- North America -- Exploration
- North America -- Economic conditions
- Ethnic relations
- North America -- Ethnic relations
- Amérique du Nord -- Conditions économiques
- Europeans
- Europe
- History
- Amérique du Nord -- Découverte et exploration européennes
- Europeans -- North America -- History
- North America -- Discovery and exploration -- European
- North America -- History
- Imperialism
- Amérique du Nord -- Relations interethniques
- United States, West
- Impérialisme + Histoire
- Vie des pionniers -- Amérique du Nord
- Europe -- Colonies -- America
- Frontier and pioneer life -- North America
- Fourrures + Commerce -- États-Unis (Ouest) -- Histoire
- Nordamerika
- Europe -- Colonies -- Amérique
- Fur trade
- Discovery and exploration, European
- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
- Fourrures + Commerce -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
- Pelzhandel
- Européens -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
- North America
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Colonies
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- Imperialism + History
- Economic history
- Fur trade -- North America -- History
- Fur trade -- West (U.S.) -- History
- North America -- Exploration
- North America -- Economic conditions
- Ethnic relations
- North America -- Ethnic relations
- Amérique du Nord -- Conditions économiques
- Europeans
- Europe
- History
- Amérique du Nord -- Découverte et exploration européennes
- Europeans -- North America -- History
- North America -- Discovery and exploration -- European
- North America -- History
- Imperialism
- Amérique du Nord -- Relations interethniques
- United States, West
- Impérialisme + Histoire
- Vie des pionniers -- Amérique du Nord
- Europe -- Colonies -- America
- Frontier and pioneer life -- North America
- Fourrures + Commerce -- États-Unis (Ouest) -- Histoire
- Nordamerika
- Europe -- Colonies -- Amérique
- Fur trade
- Discovery and exploration, European
- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
- Fourrures + Commerce -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
- Pelzhandel
- Européens -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
- North America
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Colonies
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