Furs and frontiers in the far north : the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade

"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...

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Auteur principal : Bockstoce John R. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Furs and frontiers in the far north : the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade / John R. Bockstoce; foreword by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Publié : New Haven : Yale University Press , cop. 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol.(xxii, 472 p.)
Collection : The Lamar series in Western history
Contenu : The Origins of the Fur Trade in the Bering Strait region. 1. The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait. Trapping and Hunting for Marketable Furs. The Russian Expansion toward Alaska. Marketing the Furs. The Russian-British Rivalry in Northern Alaska. The Russians move north. The British response. Mikhailovsky Redoubt. The Expeditions to Point Barrow. Zagoskin's Expedition to the Yukon. The British Expansion Northwestward. Foreign Fleets reach Bering Strait. The Search for Sir John Franklin. Trading Activities from 1848 to the Sale of Russian America. Chaos and Transformation in the latter Third of the Nineteenth Century. The Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century. End of the Century. The Introduction of Firearms to the Eskimos of the Bering Strait Region
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