Furs and frontiers in the far north : the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade

Furs and frontiers in the far north : the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade /

"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...

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Main Author: Bockstoce, John R.
Other Authors: Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series:Lamar series in western history
Subjects:
1800 - 1899
Fur trade > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Merchants > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Eskimos > Hunting > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Russians > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
British > Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
British.
Commerce.
Eskimos > Hunting.
Fur trade.
Merchants.
Russians.
Pelzhandel
commerce > Esquimau (peuple) > fourrure > Alaska (Etats-Unis) > Béring (mer, région) > Sibérie (Russie) > est > 19e s.
Bering Strait Region > History > 19th century.
Alaska > Commerce > Russia > History > 19th century.
Russia > Commerce > Alaska > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Commerce > Alaska > History.
Alaska > Commerce > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Alaska.
Great Britain.
Pacific Ocean > Bering Strait Region.
Russia.
Beringstraße > Region
Tschuktschenhalbinsel
History.

University of St. Thomas

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