White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic - The Fur Trade, Transportation, Change in Early Twentieth Century

How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic 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 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. This period brought profound changes to Native peoples of the North. To show its enormous impact, the author draws on interviews with trappers and traders, oral and written archival accounts, research in newspapers and periodicals, and his own field notes from 1969 to the present.

Product details

• Authors: William Barr, John R. Bockstoce, Bockstoce John R.
• Assisted by: Barr William (Foreword)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780300221794
• ISBN: 978-0-300-22179-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Lamar Series in Western Histor; Lamar Series in Western Histor; The Lamar Series in Western History; The Lamar Western History; Lamar Series in Western History (YALE)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Canada, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / North America, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Indigenous / General