The Fur Trade of the American West - A Geographical Synthesis (Paperback, New Ed)

"In stressing the exploitation and destruction of the physical and human environment rather than the usual frontier romanticism, David Wishart has provided for students of the trans-Mississippi fur trade a valuable service."--Journal of the Early Republic. A standard reference work [that] should be required reading for all students of the American west."--Pacific Historical Review. "The whole [fur trade] system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles. This is an impressive achievement for a book so brief...[It] opens out onto new methodological vistas and paradigms in western history."--William H. Goetzmann, New Mexico Historical Review David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distin-guished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available from the University of Nebraska Press.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1992
First published:	November 1992
Authors:	David J. Wishart
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
Pages:	237
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-9732-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Distributive industries > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-8032-9732-7
Barcode:	9780803297326

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