The Company : the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire
(Book)
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Published
Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2020.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
971.01 BOWN
1 available
971.01 BOWN
1 available
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Published
Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
486 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bown, S. R. (2020). The Company: the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire . Doubleday Canada.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bown, Stephen R.. 2020. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire. Doubleday Canada.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bown, Stephen R.. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire Doubleday Canada, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bown, Stephen R.. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire Doubleday Canada, 2020.
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