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The Company's Island: St Helena, Company Colonies and the Colonial Endeavour
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I. B. Tauris & Company
Company, Crown and Colony: The Hudson's Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada
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9781848851320
ISBN13:
9781848851320
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Company, Crown and Colony: The Hudson's Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada
$205.74
The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the great merchant companies. Granted sole trading rights to a huge part what is now Canada they were coerced in the mid nineteenth century to set up a colonial administration on Vancouver Island to protect British interests at a time of growing expansionism from America to the south and possible threats from a Russian Alaska to the north. 'Company, Crown and Colony' tells the story of the challenges they faced. Drawing on rich archival resources the author provides a detailed account of this turbulent period, revealing the difficulties faced by a leading merchant company as they sought to resolve their conflicting interests of commerce and settlement in a complex situation, and providing fresh and lively insights into the emergence of a region of North America that is today one of the principal commercial centres of Canada.
| Author: Stephen Royle |
| Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company |
| Publication Date: Nov 30, 2010 |
| Number of Pages: 320 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1848851324 |
| ISBN-13: 9781848851320 |
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