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Author Bockstoce, John R., author.

Title Furs and frontiers in the far north : the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade / John R. Bockstoce ; foreword by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 472 pages) : maps
Series The Lamar series in western history
Lamar series in western history.
Contents Part 1. The origins of the fur trade in the Bering Strait region ; The opening of the maritime fur trade at Bering Strait -- Trapping and hunting for marketable furs -- The Russian expansion toward Alaska -- Marketing the furs -- Part 2. The Russian-British rivalry in northern Alaska ; The Russians move north -- The British response -- Mikhailovsky Redoubt -- The expeditions to Point Barrow -- Zagoskin's expedition to the Yukon -- The British expansion northwestward -- Part 3. Foreign fleets reach Bering Strait ; The search for Sir John Franklin -- Trading activities from 1848 to the sale of Russian America -- Chaos and transformation in the latter third of the nineteenth century -- The last decades of the nineteenth century -- End of the century -- Appendix: The introduction of firearms to the Eskimos of the Bering Strait region
Summary This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and America and was an agent of massive change in these regions. Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial, and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided them with fur, ivory, and whalebone in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol, and hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the enterprising individuals who energized the Alaskan fur trade and, in doing so, forever altered the region?s history
Bibliography Includes chronology, glossary, notes, bibliographical references (pages 411-446), and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Fur trade -- Bering Strait Region -- History -- 19th century
Merchants -- Bering Strait Region -- History -- 19th century
Inuit -- Hunting -- Bering Strait Region -- History -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- Hunting
Russians -- Bering Strait Region -- History -- 19th century
British -- Bering Strait Region -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- North America.
British
Commerce
Eskimos -- Hunting
Fur trade
Merchants
Russians
Pelzhandel
commerce -- Esquimau (peuple) -- fourrure -- Alaska (Etats-Unis) -- Béring (mer, région) -- Sibérie (Russie) -- est -- 19e s.
SUBJECT Bering Strait Region -- History -- 19th century
Alaska -- Commerce -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Russia -- Commerce -- Alaska -- History -- 19th century
Alaska -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Alaska -- History -- 19th century
Subject Alaska
Great Britain
Pacific Ocean -- Bering Strait Region
Russia
Beringstraße -- Region
Alaska
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Genre/Form History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009001944
ISBN 9780300154900
0300154909
1282351788
9781282351783
9786612351785
6612351780