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02396aam a2200325Mi 4500 001 E241C51C62C811EBBBC4168156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210130010016 007 ta 008 201020s2020 oncab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0385694075 020 $a 9780385694070 035 $a (OCoLC)1223542720 040 $a CNCAR $b eng $e rda $c CNCAR $d OCLCO $d SILO 082 04 $a 971.01 B 100 1 $a Bown, Stephen R., $e author. 245 14 $a The Company : $b the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire / $c Stephen R. Bown. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Doubleday Canada, $c [2020] 300 $a 486 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a 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 By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. 610 20 $a Hudson's Bay Company $x History. 650 0 $a Fur trade $z Canada $x History. 651 0 $a Northwest, Canadian $x History. 651 0 $a Canada $x History $y To 1763 (New France) 651 0 $a Canada $x History $y 1763-1867. 941 $a 2 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20210818013956.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20210130011531.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E241C51C62C811EBBBC4168156ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search