Author: Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 180539438X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Explorations and Entanglements
Author: Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 180539438X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 180539438X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867
Author: Lydia Black
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742.- v.2. Steller's journal of the sea voyage from Kamchatka to America and return on the second expedition, 1741-1742; translated and in part annotated by Leonhard Stejneger
Catalogue of the Public Archives Library
Author: Public Archives of Canada. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Catalog of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Alaska Journal
Catalog
Author: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western Americana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A Bibliography of Canadiana
Author: Toronto Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description