Stephen Royle

Company, Crown and Colony (eBook, PDF)

The Hudson's Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the great merchant companies. Granted sole trading rights to a huge part of 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857718914
• Artikelnr.: 39142319

Autorenporträt

Stephen Royle is a Emeritus Professor of Island Geography, Queen's University Belfast.