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Author: Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295955643 Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 0
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Translation of Russian book first published in 1861-63 concerning Russian colonization in Alaska. Comprehensive history of the Russian-American Company.
Author: Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295955643 Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 0
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Translation of Russian book first published in 1861-63 concerning Russian colonization in Alaska. Comprehensive history of the Russian-American Company.
Author: Hector Chevigny Publisher: ISBN: Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 300
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A compact, fast-moving social and political history that brings to vivid life the story of Alaska's early days. Its name was not Alaska until we bought it in 1867. Until then it was Russian America. Americans at large are apt to forget that our 49th state, Alaska, was first explored and settled by the Russians. They left a definite mark on the vast Northwest. -- Amazon.
Author: Ilya Vinkovetsky Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199930821 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. Russian America was effectively transformed from a remote extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated mainly by Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly modern overseas colony operated by Europeanized Russians. Under the rule of the Russian-American Company, the colony was governed on different terms than the rest of the empire, a hybrid of elements carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial systems. Its economic, labor, and social organization reflected Russian hopes for Alaska, as well as the numerous limitations, such as its vast territory and pressures from its multiethnic residents, it imposed. This approach was particularly evident in Russian strategies to convert the indigenous peoples of Russian America into loyal subjects of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky looks closely at Russian efforts to acculturate the native peoples, including attempts to predispose them to be more open to the Russian political and cultural influence through trade and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing together the history of Russia, the history of colonialism, and the history of contact between native peoples and Europeans on the American frontier, this work highlights how the overseas colony revealed the Russian Empire's adaptability to models of colonialism.
Author: Owen Matthews Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408833980 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov ? diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.
Author: Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295955643 Category : Alaska Languages : en Pages : 0
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Translation of Russian book first published in 1861-63 concerning Russian colonization in Alaska. Comprehensive history of the Russian-American Company.
Author: Gwenn A. Miller Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501701401 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
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From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church, and competition among Pacific colonial powers, Gwenn A. Miller brings to light the social, political, and economic patterns of life in the settlement, making clear that Russia's modest colonial effort off the Alaskan coast fully depended on the assistance of Alutiiq people. In this context, Miller argues, the relationships that developed between Alutiiq women and Russian men were critical keys to the initial success of Russia's North Pacific venture. Although Russia's Alaskan enterprise began some two centuries after other European powers—Spain, England, Holland, and France—started to colonize North America, many aspects of the contacts between Russians and Alutiiq people mirror earlier colonial episodes: adaptation to alien environments, the "discovery" and exploitation of natural resources, complicated relations between indigenous peoples and colonizing Europeans, attempts by an imperial state to moderate those relations, and a web of Christianizing practices. Russia's Pacific colony, however, was founded on the cusp of modernity at the intersection of earlier New World forms of colonization and the bureaucratic age of high empire. Miller's attention to the coexisting intimacy and violence of human connections on Kodiak offers new insights into the nature of colonialism in a little-known American outpost of European imperial power.
Author: James R. Gibson Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773508295 Category : Commerce Languages : en Pages : 453
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James Gibson's thoroughly researched and highly detailed study is the first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America.
Author: Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496210832 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 307
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In Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska, or "Russian America," between 1741 and 1799. Beginning with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov's discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and ending with the formation of the Russian-American Company's monopoly of the Russian colonial endeavor in the Americas, Russian Colonization of Alaska offers a definitive, revisionist examination of Tsarist Russia's foray into the imperial contest in North America. Russian Colonization of Alaska is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy, history, and ethnography. Grinёv's study elaborates the social, political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and psychological aspects of Russian America. He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies of the natural environment, competition from other North American empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial diplomats. The colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was instead part of overarching Russian and global history.
Author: Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev
Author: Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev
Author: Hector Chevigny
Author: Ilya Vinkovetsky
Author: Owen Matthews
Author: Semen Bent͡sianovich Okunʹ
Author: Gwenn A. Miller
Author: James R. Gibson
Author: Raymond Henry Fisher
Author: Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv