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Traces the rise and fall of the American fur industry, beginning with Dutch traders in the early 1600s through the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century and explains how the animal skin trade damaged the lives of Native Americans.
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"Most of all [Dolin] is a scholarly storyteller as fascinating as it is on the economic and political (not to mention the ecological) implications, his is, from first to last, an 'epic history.' [Kerrigan gave Fur, Fortune, and Empire five out of five stars, for a superlative rating]" (Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman)
"Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America was a wonderful book. He has now surpassed it. . . . [Fur, Fortune, and Empire is] a detailed, even-handed, utterly compelling history of the fur trade . . . It's magnificent." (Jonathan Wright, Geographical Magazine (UK) - the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society)
"Offering a new way to look at American history, Eric Jay Dolin explains how the fur trade helped to create the nation . . . It is a compelling story . . . . His clean, crisp prose makes this often horrifying narrative utterly fascinating."(Neal Wyatt, Library Journal)
"Informative . . . The fur trade, as Dolin so vividly describes, was "a seminal part of who we are as nation, and how we came to be." (Judith Chettle, Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Starred Review. Who'd think you could write a history of the U.S. centered on three centuries of the trade in furs? Dolin has done so in this spirited tale...Dolin, author of the acclaimed Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, offers another good history well told. (Publishers Weekly )
Starred Review. The fascinating story of the fur trade, full of heroism, greed, violence and political conflict. . . . riveting narrative . . . A delightful history, reminding readers that while noble ideals led to the settling of the United States, the fur trade paid the bills. (Kirkus Reviews )
Eric Jay Dolin whose previous book, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, was a deft blend of history, business and zoology has produced a superb one-volume examination of an era when American ingenuity and its competitive spirit began to flourish.... Dolin describes in marvelous detail...colorful figures of the American fur trades' western expansion.... at last, we now have a book that properly accounts for America's rise as a fur-trade power. (Michael Taube - Wall Street Journal )
Dolin ranks among the historian elite. . . . It's impossible not to be drawn in by the cinematic sweep with which Dolin presents his story, with even the tiniest details accorded entertaining scrutiny. The nature of wampum, the teeth of beavers, the unfortunate introduction of guns and alcohol as barter items, the petty bickering between competing trading camps that all too often escalates into violence - there's wonder in every paragraph. Dolin clearly loves the material he's presenting, and he's excited to share it. (Jeff Guinn - Dallas Morning News )
In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, Eric Jay Dolin ranges far and wide over land and sea, searching for the beating heart of a gargantuan industry touched by almost every aspect of human society and human nature: war, power, money, faith, desire and ambition. . . . As in Leviathan, his highly praised book on U.S. whaling, he restores what most of us regard as an American institution to its rightful place on the international stage. The result is easily the finest tale of the trade in recent memory, a crisply written tale unburdened by excessive detail or homespun provincialism. --(Kirk David Swinehart - Washington Post )
Great story telling that weaves the commercial, environmental, and political threads of the history of the American fur trade into a wonderfully readable narrative. . . History writing of the highest order. . . It restores the central role of the American fur trade in understanding the development of the United States. (Peter Drummey, Stephen T. Riley Librarian, Massachusetts Historical Society )
Fur, Fortune, and Empire is a comprehensive, intensively researched, and eminently readable history of the North American fur trade, a crucial episode in explaining how the United States became a continental nation. (Robert M. Utley, former Chief Historian of the National Park Service )
Adventurers, charlatans, schemers, and activists abound . . . The true stories Dolin spins rival anything Hollywood has come up with on the topic. . . . entertaining and informative. . . . Fur, Fortune, and Empire gives what it promises. It is an illuminating analysis of how the beaver and its fur-bearing colleagues became the true 'founding fathers' of North America. --(Dennis Rizzo - The Internet Review of Books )
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"Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America was a wonderful book. He has now surpassed it. . . . [Fur, Fortune, and Empire is] a detailed, even-handed, utterly compelling history of the fur trade . . . It's magnificent." (Jonathan Wright, Geographical Magazine (UK) - the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society)
"Offering a new way to look at American history, Eric Jay Dolin explains how the fur trade helped to create the nation . . . It is a compelling story . . . . His clean, crisp prose makes this often horrifying narrative utterly fascinating."(Neal Wyatt, Library Journal)
"Informative . . . The fur trade, as Dolin so vividly describes, was "a seminal part of who we are as nation, and how we came to be." (Judith Chettle, Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Starred Review. Who'd think you could write a history of the U.S. centered on three centuries of the trade in furs? Dolin has done so in this spirited tale...Dolin, author of the acclaimed Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, offers another good history well told. (Publishers Weekly )
Starred Review. The fascinating story of the fur trade, full of heroism, greed, violence and political conflict. . . . riveting narrative . . . A delightful history, reminding readers that while noble ideals led to the settling of the United States, the fur trade paid the bills. (Kirkus Reviews )
Eric Jay Dolin whose previous book, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, was a deft blend of history, business and zoology has produced a superb one-volume examination of an era when American ingenuity and its competitive spirit began to flourish.... Dolin describes in marvelous detail...colorful figures of the American fur trades' western expansion.... at last, we now have a book that properly accounts for America's rise as a fur-trade power. (Michael Taube - Wall Street Journal )
Dolin ranks among the historian elite. . . . It's impossible not to be drawn in by the cinematic sweep with which Dolin presents his story, with even the tiniest details accorded entertaining scrutiny. The nature of wampum, the teeth of beavers, the unfortunate introduction of guns and alcohol as barter items, the petty bickering between competing trading camps that all too often escalates into violence - there's wonder in every paragraph. Dolin clearly loves the material he's presenting, and he's excited to share it. (Jeff Guinn - Dallas Morning News )
In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, Eric Jay Dolin ranges far and wide over land and sea, searching for the beating heart of a gargantuan industry touched by almost every aspect of human society and human nature: war, power, money, faith, desire and ambition. . . . As in Leviathan, his highly praised book on U.S. whaling, he restores what most of us regard as an American institution to its rightful place on the international stage. The result is easily the finest tale of the trade in recent memory, a crisply written tale unburdened by excessive detail or homespun provincialism. --(Kirk David Swinehart - Washington Post )
Great story telling that weaves the commercial, environmental, and political threads of the history of the American fur trade into a wonderfully readable narrative. . . History writing of the highest order. . . It restores the central role of the American fur trade in understanding the development of the United States. (Peter Drummey, Stephen T. Riley Librarian, Massachusetts Historical Society )
Fur, Fortune, and Empire is a comprehensive, intensively researched, and eminently readable history of the North American fur trade, a crucial episode in explaining how the United States became a continental nation. (Robert M. Utley, former Chief Historian of the National Park Service )
Adventurers, charlatans, schemers, and activists abound . . . The true stories Dolin spins rival anything Hollywood has come up with on the topic. . . . entertaining and informative. . . . Fur, Fortune, and Empire gives what it promises. It is an illuminating analysis of how the beaver and its fur-bearing colleagues became the true 'founding fathers' of North America. --(Dennis Rizzo - The Internet Review of Books )
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1441760636
- ISBN 13 9781441760630
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