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...Lillian Estelle Fisher The California Sea Otter Trade, 1784-1848 . By Ogden Adele . ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1941 . Pp. 251 . $2.50 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

... to encroach on what he regarded as Russia’s legally owned trading and hunting realm north of Vancouver Island, where sea otter pelts were far and away the single most valuable commodity in the North Pacific trade. Because of this foreign competition and the unrestrained assaults that had already depleted...

... Spain in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. However, it also deals with exploration of the Pacific, maintenance of California presidios and missions, establishment of Spain’s northernmost outpost at Nooka, the sea-otter trade, and international rivalry over Alaska and western Canada. Based...

... that the Borderlands had become the focus of international envy, with Russians, Englishmen, and later, North Americans, seeking their fortunes in the lucrative sea otter trade of the Pacific Northwest. Charles III’s policy of “defensive modernization” required that these intrusions be neutralized at any cost...

...’ service in the Chaco War enabled him to empathize with both the guerrillas and their pursuers, and Sánchez’ long experience in Bolivian politics and journalism facilitated the gathering and evaluation of information for this work. Their sources are clearly identified. The book otters no sensational...

... of forced labor (a term that is never fully defined) have nourished California's economy. Her exploration of the Russian trade “rectangle” in otter pelts and captive Unanga◯ hunters between 1741 and 1838 weaves California into a Pacific matrix of colonialism and enslavement. These interventions show...

..., the rhea, the deer, and the otter. They practiced no agriculture. 7 Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, the Querandí supplemented their diet with fish from the rivers, but with the gradual European occupation of the river valleys they were forced to a complete dependence on the hunt...