Author: Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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A detailed study of the events leading up to the sale of Alaska to the United States.

Author: Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Norman E. Saul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Drawing upon more than two decades of research in secondary and documentary publications as well as archival materials from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain, Saul reveals a wealth of new detail about contacts between the two countries between the American Revolutionary War and the purchase of Alaska in 1867.

Author: Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496222172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Maritime officers at the head of Russian America -- The hunting-trading activities of the RAC in 1825-40 -- The Russian colonies in the 1840s -- Russian America in the 1850s -- The Russian colonies in the 1860s and the sale of Alaska to the United States.

Author: Ronald J. Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295953762
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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A study of Russian-American relations during the time of the Alaska purchase, giving an explanation of the agreement and its role in the history of the two countries.

Author: A. V. Grinev
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803205384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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The Tlingits, the largest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in Alaska's coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met non-Natives in 1741 during an encounter with the crew of the Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. The volatile and complex connections between the Tlingits and their Russian neighbors, as well as British and American voyagers and traders, are the subject of this classic work, first published in Russian and now revised and updated for this English-language edition. Andrei Val'terovich Grinev bases his account on hundreds of documents from archives in Russia and the United States; he also relies on official reports, the notes of travelers, the investigations of historians and ethnographers, museum collections, atlases, illustrations, and photographs.

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: Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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In this third volume of Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv examines the final period in Russian America's history, from naval officers' coming to power in the colonies (1818) to the sale of Alaska to the United States (1867).

Author: Stephen W. Haycox
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295800372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region’s pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more recent threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission and the influence of oil money on inexperienced politicians. Readers may be familiar with an earlier anthology, Interpreting Alaska’s History, from which the present volume evolved to accommodate an explosion of research in the past decade. While a number of the original pieces were found to be irreplaceable, more than half of the essays are new. The result is a fresh perspective on the subject and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and scholars.

Author: Aleksandr Ivanovich Alekseev
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Based on archival material, historical and geographic research, this book gives a detailed account of 125 years of Russian America (Alaska) from its establishment as a territory (in 1741) through the exploration of the Aleutian Islands and the North West part of North America, through its sale to the United States in 1867, from the Russian point of view. Analyses the economic position of the Russian-American Company and reasons for its liquidation and the sale of Russian America. Contains many illustrations, portraits and maps.