Empire Of The Bay

Author : Peter Charles Newman
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Bay written by Peter Charles Newman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping volume of the Hudson's Bay Company--consisting of Peter C. Newman's "Company of Adventurers" and "Caesars of the Wilderness"--is also the subject of a PBS documentary, "Empire of the Bay", airing in August. It tells of an empire that covered one-twelfth of the Earth's surface and shaped the destiny of a continent.

Author : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385694091
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Company written by Stephen Bown and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. 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 By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.

Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415100588
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 written by David Stone Potter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the period covered by this book, Rome was the greatest power in the world. By its end, it had fallen conclusively from this dominant position. David Potter's comprehensive survey of two critical and eventful centuries traces the course of imperial decline.

Author : Gerard Friell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113578261X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theodosius written by Gerard Friell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell bring together literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence concerning this Roman emperor, studying his military and political struggles, which he fought heroically but ultimately in vain. Summoned from retirement to the throne after the disastrous Roman defeat by the Goths at Adrianople, Theodosius was called on to rebuild the armies and put the shattered state back together. He instituted a new policy towards the barbarians, in which diplomacy played a larger role than military might, at a time of increasing frontier dangers and acute manpower shortage. He was also the founder of the established Apostolic Catholic Church. Unlike other Christian emperors, he suppressed both heresy and paganism and enforced orthodoxy by law. The path was a diffucult one, but Theodosius (and his successor, Stilicho) had little choice. This new study convincingly demonstrates how a series of political misfortunes led to the separation of the Eastern and Western empires which meant that the overlordship of Rome in Europe dwindled into mere ceremonial. The authors examine the emperor and his character and the state of the Roman empire, putting his reign in the context of the troubled times.

Author : Peter Charles Newman
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Bay written by Peter Charles Newman and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular history of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada, including the fur trade, exploration, native peoples, social history, northern trading posts and a chronology.

Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140274882
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Bay written by Peter C. Newman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agnes C. Laut
Publisher : New York : R.M. McBride & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of Our Western Empire written by Agnes C. Laut and published by New York : R.M. McBride & Company. This book was released on 1927 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louisiana. Oyster Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biennial Report written by Louisiana. Oyster Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734040213
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seat of Empire written by Charles Carleton Coffin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Seat of Empire by Charles Carleton Coffin

Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company written by Peter C. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: