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Auteur(s) : Dolin, Eric Jay (1961-....)
Titre(s) : Fur, fortune, and empire [Texte imprimé] : the epic history of the fur trade in America / Eric Jay Dolin
Publication : New York : W. W. Norton, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii, 442 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-411) and index
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.
Sujet(s) : Fourrures -- Industrie et commerce -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire
Fourrures -- Industrie et commerce -- États-Unis (ouest) -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780393067101 (hdb.). - ISBN 0393067106 (hdb.). - ISBN 9780393340020 (pbk.).
- ISBN 0393340023 (pbk.)
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