Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860

Name: Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Author: Anne Hyde

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Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860

Anne Hyde

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To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States.

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