“Soft Gold” Before the Gold Rush: Sea Otter Pelts in the “Competitive Expansion” of Merchant Capitalism and the Creation of a Pacific Ocean Economy
Objective/Context: In this article, we examine how Chinese demand for pelts—of sea otters and other marine mammals—fueled the eighteenth-century competitive expansion of European and later American merchants and explorers in the Pacific islands and along the Pacific coast of North America. Sea otter...
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| Formáid: | Artigo |
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Universidad de los Andes
2023
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| Rochtain ar líne: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/gmv4 https://journals.openedition.org/histcrit/13303 |
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