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Britain, Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion, 1778-1914 (Paperback)
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Britain, Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion, 1778-1914 (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors
were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities
of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'.
The studies collected here trace how, under the influences of the
Royal Navy and British statecraft, the British came to dominate the
area, with expeditions sent from London, Bombay and Macau, and the
Canadian quest from overland. The North West Company came to
control the trade of the Columbia River, despite American
opposition, and British sloop diplomacy helped overcome Russian and
Spanish resistance to British aspirations. Elsewhere in the
Americas, the British promoted trans-Pacific trade with China,
harvested British Columbia forests, conveyed specie from western
Mexico, and established the South America naval station. The flag
followed trade and vice versa; empire was both formal (at Vancouver
Island) and informal (as in California or Mexico). This book
features individuals such as James Cook, William Bolts, Peter Pond,
and Sir Alexander Mackenzie. It is also an account of the pressure
that corporations placed on the British state in shaping the
emerging world of trade and colonization in that distant ocean and
its shores, and of the importance of sea-power in the creation of
modern Canada.
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