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000346311 1001_ $$aDolin, Eric Jay.
000346311 24510 $$aFur, fortune, and empire :$$bthe epic history of the fur trade in America /$$cEric Jay Dolin.
000346311 260__ $$aNew York :$$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$$cc2010.
000346311 300__ $$axvii, 442 p., [32] p. of plates :$$bill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports (some col.) ;$$c25 cm.
000346311 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000346311 5050_ $$apt. 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.
000346311 520__ $$aFor all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a seemingly inexhaustible resource. The result was a major boost in the evolution of the colonies into a powerful new player on the world stage. Dolin sheds insight on the ways the fur trade created international tensions--in New England, the Great Lakes, and in the expanding West. Fur traders were often the first white men to map major rivers, forests, and mountains, then soon pushed Native Americans off their lands as John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company attempted to monopolize the West.--From publisher description.
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000346311 650_0 $$aFur trade$$zWest (U.S.)$$xHistory.
000346311 650_0 $$aFrontier and pioneer life$$zNorth America.
000346311 650_0 $$aEuropeans$$zNorth America$$xHistory.
000346311 650_0 $$aImperialism$$xHistory.
000346311 651_0 $$aEurope$$xColonies$$zAmerica.
000346311 651_0 $$aNorth America$$xHistory.
000346311 651_0 $$aNorth America$$xEthnic relations.
000346311 651_0 $$aNorth America$$xDiscovery and exploration$$xEuropean.
000346311 651_0 $$aNorth America$$xEconomic conditions.
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