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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / William Barr
- Preface
- Fort Ross : founding and abandonment, 1937 to 1948
- White fox : from the trapper to the retail customer
- The advance of the maritime trade in the Bering Strait region
- Expansion of the trade in northern Alaska and western Arctic Canada
- Revolution and civil war on the Chukchi Peninsula
- Growth of the trade in northern Alaska
- Competition among traders in western Arctic Canada
- State ownership of the trade on the Chukchi Peninsula
- Contraction of trade in northern Alaska
- Toward monopoly control in western Arctic Canada
- Chronology
- Glossary.