Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

by John R. Bockstoce

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300167997
• ISBN13: 9780300167993
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"