Economic Beginnings of the Far West Volume 1
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Narrateur(s):
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Joseph Tabler
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Auteur(s):
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Katharine Coman
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A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
ECONOMIC BEGINNINGS OF THE FAR WEST. VOLUME I
EXPLORERS AND COLONIZERS by KATHARINE COMAN. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1912.
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
KATHARINE COMAN Professor of History at Wellesley College
The two-volume book is today hailed as a classic and was reprinted twice; Macmillan in 1925, and Kelly in 1969. The University of Michigan's "Naming Project" notes that she was one of the first historians to use local newspaper articles and government documents as primary sources in her teaching and writing.
Coman developed and taught several new economics, history, and rhetoric courses, including Statistical Study of Economic Problems, Industrial History of the United States, and Conservation of Our Natural Resources.
To teach students about the practicality of applying economic theory to real-world economic and social problems, Coman escorted her students on field trips to Boston's tenement houses, labor union meetings, factories, and sweatshops.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME I
PART I. THE SPANISH OCCUPATION
CHAPTER I
The Explorers
Section I. The Route to the Orient
Section II. The Seven Cities of Cibola
CHAPTER II
The Colonizers
Section I. New Mexico
Great Undertakings
Misgovernment
The Pike Expedition
A Neglected Province
Section II. Louisiana
La Salle's Ill-fated Enterprise
Louisiana under France and Spain
Section III. Texas
Possession contested by France and Spain
The Coming of the Americans
Section IV. California
Colonization Attempted
Causes for Failure
Success of the Missions
Commercial Restrictions
Secularization of the Missions
The Cattle Kings
PART II. EXPLORATION AND THE FUR
TRADE
CHAPTER I
The Northwest Coast
Section I. Russian Explorers
Section II. Spanish Explorers
Section III. English Explorers Section
IV. The Americans
CHAPTER II
The Overland Search for the Western Sea
Section I. French Explorers
Section II. English Explorers
Section III. American Explorers
John Ledyard
Lewis and Clark
Pike's Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi
CHAPTER III
The Fur Trade
Section I. Government Control vs. Laissez-faire
Spanish Policy
British Fur Traders
The American Policy
Section II. The Fur Traders of St. Louis
Missouri Fur Company
Section III. Astoria
Section IY. Fort Vancouver
Section V. Rivalry of the American Companies
The American Fur Company
The Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Section VI. Decline of the' Fur Trade
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Audio copyright 2024
This book is in the public domain.
From the Author's Preface: Unquestionably, Spain and Great Britain would have been engaged in an unequal controversy for possession of the richest portion of North America, but for the intervention of a new claimant. The young Republic....
As to the political and diplomatic merits and demerits of this struggle for possession, a mere economist will not attempt to decide. Our province is rather to suggest the underlying economic conditions that determined the outcome of war and treaty and race competition, and to reveal the bread and butter struggle that must ever result in the survival of the fittest—the ablest to utilize the resources of virgin territory.
I have endeavored to tell the story...without bias or elaboration.
Audio cover picture—from the book—Yellow Clover, A Book of Remembrance by Katharine Lee Bates on Internet Archive.
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today's technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
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