Author: Henry PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fur trade
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce
Author: Henry PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fur trade
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340023
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
For 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.
The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Author: Bombay Natural History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Natural Science
Author: University of Toronto Studies
Author: University of TorontoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Fur Trade in Canada
Author: Harold A. InnisPublisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774648881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
First published in 1930, “The Fur Trade in Canada” is a book by Harold Innis that draws sweeping conclusions about the complex and frequently devastating effects of the fur trade on aboriginal peoples; about how furs as staple products induced an enduring economic dependence among the European immigrants who settled in the new colony and about how the fur trade ultimately shaped Canada's political destiny. Covers the fur trade era in Canada from the early 16th century to the 1920s. It analyses the economic and social implications of Canada's reliance on staple products.
University of Toronto Studies
Author: The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology
Author: Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History Of The Human Impact
Author: Eric L JonesPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814522589
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations. It contests the notion of perpetual decline in species composition. The arguments are supported by far more precise historical detail than is usual in books about ecology. The need to take the gains to human society into account when assessing environmental change is strongly emphasized. The book features case studies including England, the Netherlands, USA, East Asia, Brazil, and the areas of modern agricultural ‘land grab’.This book is important for its close attention to the documented historical record of environmental change in several countries over several centuries; for its demonstration of how much wildlife populations have been influenced by fluctuations in market activity; for revealing the need to be sensitive to historical baselines; and for emphasizing the imperative of taking the gains to human society into account when assessing environmental change. It, therefore, has considerable significance for environmental and conservation policies as well as for future studies in ecological history.