Author: Svetlana Grigorʹevna FedorovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A summary of the population statistics of the book, as included in the appendix Population of Russian America (1799-1867).
The Population of Russian America (1799-1867)
Author: Svetlana Grigorʹevna FedorovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A summary of the population statistics of the book, as included in the appendix Population of Russian America (1799-1867).
The Population of Russian America (1799-1867)
Author: Svetlana G. FedorovaRussian America
Author: Richard A. PiercePublisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A collection of biographies of 675 individuals who influenced developments in Alaska (Russian America) before 1867, including ordinary Russians, sovereigns, high court officials, British, French, Spanish and American seafarers, Finlanders and natives. Includes map and photographs.
The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867
Author: A. V. GrinevPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803205384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
The Russian Population in Alaska and California, Late 18th Century-1867
Author: Svetlana Grigorʹevna FedorovaPublisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Otter Skins, Boston Ships and China Goods
Author: James R. GibsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520288
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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.
Exploring and Mapping Alaska
Author: Alekseĭ Vladimirovich PostnikovPublisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602232512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire 18th century. During the next 126 years the struggle to develop and refine geographic knowledge of the vast region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska met with many obstacles, including inclement weather, the chain of supply over great distances, the need to train expert navigators and cartographers, and false leads due to spurious voyage accounts. For much of this era, critical geographic knowledge was kept as a state secret in Russia and not shared, even with the very navigators and cartographers who were developing much needed maps and navigational aids. Despite this, a rich cartographic heritage developed to be carried forward into the American era. The traditional Russian cartographic methods were applied to new discoveries in Siberia and beyond. Early fur traders and explorers utilized this system which for a time co-existed with the new cartographic methodology utilized in Europe and adopted for use by the Russia of Peter the Great. It became an age of scientific exploration. Great Britain, France, Spain, but especially Russia, sent expeditions. An increasingly complete knowledge of the coasts of North America, with forays into the interior, emerged. Postnikov describes the explorations and richly illustrates how the resulting maps evolved and contributed to the world’s knowledge of one of the last great regions of the world to be explored.
Russia's American Colony
Author: S. Frederick StarrPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
American, Canadian, and Soviet scholars gathered in Sitka under the auspices of the Kenan Institute to review and reinterpret the history of tsarist Russia's colonial outpost in Alaska. The result is this comprehensive examination of that history, which goes beyond the traditional concentration on political and diplomatic history by treating the economy, society, and culture of Alaska during the Russian period.
The population of Russia 1515-2015
Author: A.G.VinogradovPublisher: WP IPGEB
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The book «The population of Russia 1515-2015 » is the first reference work of this kind on demography, created in Russia in the last decades. The work is dedicated to the size and composition of the population of Russia since ancient times, it describes the number of demographic processes. Many statistical materials have not been previously published in print available.
Russian America
Author: Ilya VinkovetskyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199930821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.