With expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition among the Russians, British, and Americans for control of Alaska. 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 ...
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With expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition among the Russians, British, and Americans for control of Alaska. 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.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Small rubbed spot ot front panel of dj. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 472 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Lamar Series in Western History. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0300149212. Dedication page has previous owner's notes, otherwise book is NF.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Map endpapers; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 472 pages; "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."
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. The Lamar Series In Western History; Great overall condition. Some light blemishes to dust jacket, hardcover corners slightly bent.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. No defects in book or dust jacket, the latter now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Endpapers are maps of the region. The Lamar Series In Western History Series. Small 4to 9"-11" tall. 496 pages. H3.
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Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 2009. First Edition. 1st Printing. 496 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy! Size: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3. Native American: Alaska/Canada 6077.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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