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100	1		_aBown, Stephen R., _eauthor. _9171009
245	1	4	_aThe Company : _bthe rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire / _cStephen R. Bown.
250			_aAnchor Canada edition.
264		1	_aToronto : _bAnchor Canada, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 458-472) and index.
520			_a"A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. 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 By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel."-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aHudson's Bay Company _xHistory.
651		0	_aNorthwest, Canadian _xHistory. _931478
651		0	_aCanada _xHistory _yTo 1763 (New France) _929578
651		0	_aCanada _xHistory _y1763-1867.
650		0	_aFur trade _zCanada _xHistory.
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