White fox and icy seas in the Western Arctic : the fur trade, transportation, and change in the early twentieth century /
In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Boc...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic. |
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Item Description: | Original maps by Bill Nelson. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780300235166 030023516X |