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Rupert's Land : A Cultural Tapestry /
For nearly two centuries, the Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay exported from Rupert's Land hundreds of thousands of pelts, leaving in exchange a wealth of European trade goods. Yet opening the vast northwest had more far-reaching effects than an exchange of beaver and beads...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities,
1988.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | For nearly two centuries, the Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay exported from Rupert's Land hundreds of thousands of pelts, leaving in exchange a wealth of European trade goods. Yet opening the vast northwest had more far-reaching effects than an exchange of beaver and beads. Essays by a dozen scholars explore the cultural tapestry woven by explorers, artists, settlers, traders, missionaries, and map makers. Richard Ruggles traces the mapping of the territory from the mysterious gaps of the 1500s to the grids of the nineteenth century. John L. Allen recounts how fur-trade exp. |
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| Item Description: | Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Calgary, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 1986. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (335 pages): illustrations, maps, portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780889208391 |