Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of the American fur industry, from the first Dutch encounters with the Indians to the rise of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century. Dolin shows how the fur trade sparked controversy, fostered economic competition and fuelled wars among the European powers.

Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of the American fur industry, from the first Dutch encounters with the Indians to the rise of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century. Dolin shows how the fur trade sparked controversy, fostered economic competition and fuelled wars among the European powers.

Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Trading Co. and his team along with the company's guests, Mrs. Paulina Barnett and Thomas Black travel through the North West Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean. At Cape Bathurst, Hobson intends on creating a new trading post for the company, Paulina Barnett is along for the adventure and Thomas Bla...(展开全部)

From New Yorker Executive Editor and writer Michael Luo, an urgent, deeply felt history of the Chinese in America and their more than century-long struggle to belong. In 1889, while upholding the latest in a series of exclusionary laws targeting Chinese immigrants, the Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field characterized the Chinese as “impossible to assimilate with our pe...(展开全部)

Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on ...(展开全部)

Das Buch lAsst mich wA1/4nschen, ich wAre wieder ein Student.Hochaktuell und spannend wie ein Roman. Empfehle ich meinen Student(inn)en -- aber nicht als BettlektA1/4re, sonst verschlafen sie womAglich die Vorlesung.Ein optisch sehr gut gestaltetes Buch. Der leicht verstAndliche Text und die vielen selbsterklArenden Abbildungen werden Einsteiger anregen, ihre Kenntnisse auf die...(展开全部)

Das Buch lAsst mich wA1/4nschen, ich wAre wieder ein Student.Hochaktuell und spannend wie ein Roman. Empfehle ich meinen Student(inn)en -- aber nicht als BettlektA1/4re, sonst verschlafen sie womAglich die Vorlesung.Ein optisch sehr gut gestaltetes Buch. Der leicht verstAndliche Text und die vielen selbsterklArenden Abbildungen werden Einsteiger anregen, ihre Kenntnisse auf die...(展开全部)

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for the Mongo...(展开全部)