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The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age /

Throughout much of the nineteenth century the Hudson's Bay Company had a virtual monopoly on the core area of the fur trade in Canada. Its products were the object of intense competition among merchants on two continents - in Leipzig, New York, London, Winnipeg, St Louis, and Montreal. But in 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ray, Arthur J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo [New York] : University of Toronto Press, [1990]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Does the fur trade have a future?
  • Laying the groundwork for government involvement, 1870-1885
  • The fur trade in transition
  • The turning point : the impact of the First World War on the northern fur trade
  • The international marketing of Canadian furs, 1920-1945
  • The struggle for dominance in the Canadian north during the 1920s
  • Attempts to revitalize the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Department, 1920-1945
  • The native people, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the state in the industrial fur trade, 1920-1945
  • The decline of the old order.