- Gebundene Ausgabe: 223 Seiten
- Verlag: Viking; Auflage: illustrated edition (Oktober 1989)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0670829692
- ISBN-13: 978-0670829699
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 30,7 x 23,1 x 2,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 625.282 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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A history of the world's most famous trading company based on Peter Newman's history. In 1838 Sir George Simpson, the governor of the HBC, was toasted at a dinner as the "Head of the most extended dominion in the known world - the Emperor of Russia, the Queen of England and the President of the United States excepted". It was an astonishing but appropriate tribute to a commercial enterprise of unique scope and character, with trading houses that once stretched from the Arctic Ocean to Hawaii. Yet the history of the HBC is less the story of a company than of a people - its self-proclaimed gentlemen-adventurers mapped a continent and built a nation. The exciting story of the company and the people is told in this book.
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A history of the world's most famous trading company based on Peter Newman's history. In 1838 Sir George Simpson, the governor of the HBC, was toasted at a dinner as the "Head of the most extended dominion in the known world - the Emperor of Russia, the Queen of England and the President of the United States excepted". It was an astonishing but appropriate tribute to a commercial enterprise of unique scope and character, with trading houses that once stretched from the Arctic Ocean to Hawaii. Yet the history of the HBC is less the story of a company than of a people - its self-proclaimed gentlemen-adventurers mapped a continent and built a nation. The exciting story of the company and the people is told in this book.
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An excellent history of how the HBC shaped Canada into a country
25. Mai 2010
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I have read all three of Newman's Hudson's Bay Trilogy, and enjoyed all three. This, the first volume, has the best illustrations but is more of a summary overview of the other two books. I do not know the history of how the three were written, but this first book seems like it was originally intended to be a coffee table book on the HBC. It has nowhere the depth that the other two have. If you want an overview of how the HBC began and how its actions and its competition with the Northwest Company shaped much of the essence of modern Canada, read this volume. If you want to read a truly extraordinary book, read the second volume entitled "Caesars of the Wilderness", which focuses on the fur trade period of the HBC's history. I gave this latter volume as a Christmas present to my mother's companion of 27 years who was dying of lung cancer. It kept him company in the weeks leading up to his death.
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