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An ethical critique of fur factory farming
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ISBN: 3031106202 3031106210 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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From mountain man to millionaire
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ISBN: 0826272487 9780826272485 9780826219299 0826219292 9780826219268 0826219268 Year: 2011 Publisher: Columbia, Mo. University of Missouri Press

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Robert Campbell (1804-1879) came to America from Ireland in 1822 and entered the fur trade soon thereafter. He quickly rose from trapper to brigade leader to partner, all within a half dozen years. In the mid-1830s, Campbell retired from the mountains, having already amassed considerable wealth, and embarked on a new career. He returned to St. Louis and built up a business empire that embraced mercantile, steamboat, railroad, and banking interests. Through these ventures he not only gained more wealth but also became a leading force behind the development of the region's economy. Exploring the enormous treasure trove of letters, journals, and account books that Campbell left behind, William Nester places Campbell in the context of the times in which he lived, showing the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that provided the opportunities and challenges that shaped his life.


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Les voyageurs et leur monde
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ISBN: 1459337018 1441609636 2763707378 9781441609632 9782763707372 9782763787374 2763787371 9781459337015 Year: 2009 Publisher: Québec [Que.] Presses de l'Université Laval

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Les travailleurs canadiens-français qui pagayaient dans les canots, transportaient des marchandises et étaient affectés dans les postes les plus septentrionaux de l’Amérique du Nord à l’époque de la traite des fourrures sont entrés dans la culture populaire sous le nom de voyageurs. Les chercheurs universitaires autant que les vulgarisateurs de l’histoire leur ont attribué le rôle romantique de joyeux et robustes héros qui ont frayé le chemin à la colonisation européenne dans le Nord-Ouest sauvage. Carolyn Podruchny regarde au-delà des stéréotypes pour révéler les contours des vies des voyageurs, leur vision du monde et leurs valeurs. Les voyageurs et leur monde démontre que les voyageurs avaient développé des identités distinctes, modelées par leurs racines de paysans canadiens-français, les peuples autochtones qu’ils rencontraient dans le Nord-Ouest et la nature de leur emploi, engagés à contrat dans des environnements divers. Les identités des voyageurs s’imprégnaient également de leurs constants périples et de leur propre idéal de masculinité qui valorisait la force, l’endurance et l’audace. Bien qu’il soit difficile d’entendre les voix des voyageurs dans les documents d’archives, il est possible d’y découvrir une impressionnante quantité d’informations dans les descriptions laissées par leurs maîtres, les explorateurs et d’autres personnes de passage. En analysant leurs vies en conjonction avec la métaphore du voyage, Carolyn Podruchny ne fait pas que révéler la vie "idienne de ceux qu’elle examine – ce qu’ils mangeaient, leur cosmologie et leurs rituels festifs, leurs familles et, par-dessus tout, leur travail –, elle souligne aussi leur influence sur le paysage social et culturel de l’Amérique du Nord. « Ce livre est un ouvrage novateur de grande qualité sur un sujet méconnu. Il contribue puissamment à la connaissance de l’histoire de l’Ouest canadien. J’espère que les lecteurs intéressés par l’histoire des explorations et du peuplement de l’Ouest éprouveront le même enthousiasme croissant et le vif plaisir que j’ai eus à lire le livre de Carolyn Podruchny. » - Martin Pâquet, auteur et historien, professeur au Département d’histoire de l’Université Laval


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Fur, fashion and transatlantic trade during the seventeenth century : Chesapeake Bay native hunters, colonial rivalries and London merchants
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ISBN: 1787448436 1800100760 1783275790 Year: 2021 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press,

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An excellent insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together.


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An ethical critique of fur factory farming
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ISBN: 9783031106217 9783031106200 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Palgrave Macmillan


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Proceedings of the Xth International Scientific Congress in Fur Animal Production
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ISBN: 9086862055 908686760X Year: 2012 Publisher: The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers,

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These proceedings present the latest achievements and developments within the scientific community of fur animal research organised by the International Fur Animal Scientific Association (IFASA). The book contains papers on the following topics: nutrition, feeding and management, health and disease, breeding, genetics and reproduction, behaviour and welfare and a theme on 'WelFur for mink and foxes'. The scientific results presented do not only come from traditional mink producing countries, but also from countries with more recent developments in fur animal production. The scientific community in the field of fur animal production is small, but the biologic diversity and thus the need for scientifically based knowledge in this area is similar to, or often exceeds, that of other farm animals. In this book, the most diverse and recent advancements in fur animal production were brought together in order to provide a clear overview for all those involved in the fur animal industry.


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A fur trader on the Upper Missouri
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ISBN: 1496201264 9781496201263 9780803244276 0803244274 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lincoln, NB

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"The first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the Upper Missouri."--Provided by publisher.

Treasure of the land of darkness : the fur trade and its significance for medieval Russia
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ISBN: 0521320194 052154811X 051152319X Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge London New York Cambridge University Press

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Treasure of the Land of Darkness traces the traffic in fur from the lands of the north, through the major trade centres of medieval Russia to the consumer markets of the world, stretching from western Europe to China. Professor Martin reconstructs the fur-trade network of each centre (including Kiev, Novgorod and Moscow) and examines the changes they experienced. She shows how aggressive principalities enhanced their political authority through manipulation of such factors as fur resources and trade routes: thus the mid-sixteenth-century supremacy of Muscovy was based upon both political advantage and monopolisation of the networks of the fur trade. Quantitative analysis of the available data substantiates this conclusion: control over the trade of those 'lands of darkness' mentioned in contemporary Islamic texts was of fundamental importance to the political development of medieval Russia.

Where the wild animals is plentiful
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ISBN: 0585324778 9780585324777 0817309802 9780817309800 0817309802 Year: 1999 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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""I am a little Alabama girl living on the frontier where the wild animals is plentiful," wrote May Jordan in 1912. During the hunting season her father traveled Washington County buying furs, and May - already 23 - accompanied him on two of these trips, cooking meals, helping out with the business, and recording their experiences."--Jacket. "May's diary of these trips from December 1912 to March 1914 describes the routine of the fur trade and provides a vivid portrait of wilderness travel and social customs. Through May's eyes, readers can experience the sights and sounds of pine forests and swamps, the difficulty of wading through waist-deep mud, and the neighborliness of the people living in this isolated area. May also shares both the solace of religious faith and her love of laughter as reflected in the jokes she records."--Jacket. "Elisa Moore Baldwin provides an introduction that traces Jordan family history and describes economic, social, and political conditions during the period. Because few first-person accounts exist of the life of poor whites, this diary will be invaluable to students of southern and women's history; no comparable work exists for this part of Alabama during this era."--Jacket.

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