Fur, fortune, and empire the epic history of the fur trade in America
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 sevent...
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New York, N.Y. :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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