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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079244
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place "A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and "good furs" was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. The news of Hudson's 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the trade. As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in American history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West. This work provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic, including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook, whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America's China trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond the Mississippi; America's first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy still resonates today. Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today.

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : Sir George Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire written by Sir George Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simpson's reorganization of Oregon Territory after amalgamation with the Northwest Company. First published in 1931.

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : George Simpson
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674335004
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire written by George Simpson and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : Frederick Merk
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674424845
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire written by Frederick Merk and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : Sir George Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire written by Sir George Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fur Trade and Empire : George Simpson's Journal Entitled Remarks Connected with the Fur Trade in the Course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George and Back to York Factory 1824-25, with Related Documents

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Author : George Simpson
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780783722993
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire : George Simpson's Journal Entitled Remarks Connected with the Fur Trade in the Course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George and Back to York Factory 1824-25, with Related Documents written by George Simpson and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : George Simpson
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Fur Trade and Empire

Author : Sir George Simpson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire written by Sir George Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : Sir George Simpson
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Total Pages : 370 pages
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Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade

Author : Shepard Krech, III
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331503
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade written by Shepard Krech, III and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in Keepers of the Game, which dismisses the lure of European goods--the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians--and instead attributes the Indians' willingness to overkill wildlife to the epidemics that decimated their ranks, that not only shattered their religious bonds with game but also unleashed a furious revenge against the animals.

Trading Beyond the Mountains

Author : Richard S. Mackie
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842466
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Trading Beyond the Mountains written by Richard S. Mackie and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.

Fur Trade and Empire. George Simpson's Journal. Remarks Connected with the Fur Trade in the Course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George and Back to York Factory 1824-1825; Together with Accompanying Documents. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Merk. [With a Map.].

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Author : Sir George Simpson
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Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire. George Simpson's Journal. Remarks Connected with the Fur Trade in the Course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George and Back to York Factory 1824-1825; Together with Accompanying Documents. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Merk. [With a Map.]. written by Sir George Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Savage Empire

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429990708
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Savage Empire written by Alan Axelrod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America Combining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder with the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's Cod, popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal—the beaver—played in the creation of our nation. The author masterfully relays a story often neglected by conventional histories: how lust for fur trade riches moved monarchs and men to launch expeditions of discovery, finance massive corporate enterprises, and wage war. Deftly weaving cultural and military narratives, the author chronicles how Spanish, Dutch, French, English, and Native American tribes created and betrayed alliances based on trapping and trade disputes, producing a surprisingly complex series of loyalties that endured throughout the Revolution and beyond.

The Merchant John Askin

Author : Justin M. Carroll
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953128
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant John Askin written by Justin M. Carroll and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Askin, a Scots-Irish migrant to North America, built his fur trade between the years 1758 and 1781 in the Great Lakes region of North America. His experience serves as a vista from which to view important aspects of the British Empire in North America. The close interrelationship between trade and empire enabled Askin’s economic triumphs but also made him vulnerable to the consequences of imperial conflicts and mismanagement. The ephemeral, contested nature of British authority during the 1760s and 1770s created openings for men like Askin to develop a trade of smuggling liquor or to challenge the Hudson’s Bay Company’s monopoly over the fur trade, and allowed them to boast in front of British officers of having the “Key of Canada” in their pockets. How British officials responded to and even sanctioned such activities demonstrates the vital importance of trade and empire working in concert. Askin’s life’s work speaks to the collusive nature of the British Empire—its vital need for the North American merchants, officials, and Indigenous communities to establish effective accommodating relationships, transgress boundaries (real or imagined), and reject certain regulations in order to achieve the empire’s goals.

Fort Union Trading Post

Author : Erwin N. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Fort Union Trading Post written by Erwin N. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fur Trade and Empire

Author : George Simpson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
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American Business History: a Very Short Introduction

Author : Walter A. Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190622474
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book American Business History: a Very Short Introduction written by Walter A. Friedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive manufactory as the embodiment of America: "While Athens had its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit..." How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America? This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society. It introduces readers to formative business leaders (including Elbert Gary, Harlow Curtice, and Mary Kay Ash), leading firms (Mellon Bank, National Cash Register, Xerox), and fiction about business people (The Octopus, Babbitt, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit). It also discusses Alfred Chandler, Joseph Schumpeter, Mira Wilkins, and others who made significant contributions to understanding of America's business history. This VSI pursues its three central themes - the evolution, scale, and culture of American business - in a chronological framework stretching from the American Revolution to today. The first theme is evolution: How has U.S. business evolved over time? How have American companies competed with one another and with foreign firms? Why have ideas about strategy and management changed? Why did business people in the mid-twentieth century celebrate an "organizational" culture promising long-term employment in the same company, while a few decades later entrepreneurship was prized? Second is scale: Why did business assume such enormous scale in the United States? Was the rise of gigantic corporations due to the industriousness of its population, or natural resources, or government policies? And third, culture: What are the characteristics of a "business civilization"? How have opinions on the meaning of business changed? In the late nineteenth century, Andrew Carnegie believed that America's numerous enterprises represented an exuberant "triumph of democracy." After World War II, however, sociologist William H. Whyte saw business culture as stultifying, and historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, "Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men." How did changes in the nature of business affect popular views? Walter A. Friedman provides the long view of these important developments.