| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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nat Canadians |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Lamar Series in Western History
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Lamar series in western history.
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| Note |
Original maps by Bill Nelson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / William Barr -- Preface -- Fort Ross : founding and abandonment, 1937 to 1948 -- White fox : from the trapper to the retail customer -- Advance of the maritime trade in the Bering Strait region -- Expansion of the trade in northern Alaska and western Arctic Canada -- Revolution and civil war on the Chukchi Peninsula -- Growth of the trade in northern Alaska -- Competition among traders in western Arctic Canada -- State ownership of the trade on the Chukchi Peninsula -- Contraction of trade in northern Alaska -- Toward monopoly control in western Arctic Canada -- Chronology -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fur trade -- Arctic regions -- History -- 20th century.
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Fur trade. |
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Arctic Regions. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. |
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HISTORY -- North America. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Barr, William, 1940- writer of foreword.
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Nelson, Bill (Cartographer), cartographer.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bockstoce, John R. White fox and icy seas in the western Arctic. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300221794 (DLC) 2017951820 (OCoLC)1002129846 |
| ISBN |
9780300235166 (electronic book) |
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030023516X (electronic book) |
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9780300221794 (hardcover) |
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