White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4156464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Haycox (University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1056-1057 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz107 |
| OpenAlex | W2918081038 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Most who are familiar with the history of the Arctic know well the superior work of John R. Bockstoce. His Whales, Ice, and Men (1986), a tour de force of scholarship, objectivity, and contextualized information on resource harvesting in the western Arctic, is already a classic. In Furs and Frontiers in the Far North (2009), he explained the agency of Alaskan Inupiat and Siberian Chukchi in developing a trade network across the Bering Strait, and the network's disruption of native life with the arrival of whalers in the Arctic in the late nineteenth century. This new work also exhibits Bockstoce's comprehensive and assiduous research and his accessible writing style. White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic is an account of the domination of Chukotka, northern Alaska, and the western Arctic by fur trapping and marketing, especially of white fox pelts, in the first half of the twentieth century, an industry that rose and fell on the vicissitudes and whims of fashion, the collapse of the national economy in the 1930s, and the development of synthetic fabrics. In his usual manner Bockstoce has plumbed traders' journals and memoirs, company reports and correspondence, government surveys, ships' logs, and anthropologists' assessments and oral interviews to reconstruct the onset of the trade in the first and second decades of the twentieth century, its halcyon days in the 1920s, and its subsequent demise. In doing so, he adds a new chapter to Arctic history
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| Citations per year | 1.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |