Author: Svetlana FedorovaPublisher: Limestone Press
ISBN: 9780912642536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Russian Population in Alaska and California
Author: Svetlana FedorovaPublisher: Limestone Press
ISBN: 9780912642536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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
The Russian population in Alaska and California
Author: Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867
Author: Lydia BlackPublisher: 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."
The Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and Its Relation to Native American Traditions - An Attempt at a Multicultural Society, 1794-1912
Author: Viacheslav Vsevolodovich IvanovPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788139495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
In connection with the 200th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, an exhibition entitled "In The Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures", including some of the most important and interesting documents from the large archives of the Church. This volume summarizes the results of the study of the archives, stressing their relevance for the problem of semiotic nets of communication in a multilingual and multicultural society. The translation of Biblical and Church-related documents into native languages is discussed and the social and religious aspects of communication and semiotic contact are examined.
History of Alaska , Volume I
Author: Jonathan M. Nielson, Ph.D.Publisher: Academica Press
ISBN: 1680530585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
As a unique, distant geographical region of the United States, Alaska has evolved from military insignificance to high strategic priority in the 142 years since its purchase from Russia in 1867. The reasons for this dramatic shift derive from a correlation of geography, foreign policy, domestic politics, and military technology. Historically the role of the armed forces in Alaska has been large and diverse. Alaska was one of the two principal territorial purchases made by the United States between 1803 and 1867 adding nearly 1.5 million square miles to America’s national domain. Smaller by the size of Texas than Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, unlike all of the territories and states carved out of the former, languished in obscurity and isolation, and was administered as a colonial dependency by the military and other branches of the federal government, its official ‘territorial status’ and government notwithstanding. While sharing many common aspects of frontier settlement and Western history with territories such as Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Colorado, Alaska presented special challenges peculiar to a non-contiguous arctic and sub-Arctic environment, separated from the United States by a foreign power. Indeed, only the defeated South under Reconstruction experienced the same degree of military occupation and martial law. Alaska also has the unique distinction in the American experience of belonging to Imperial Russia before it became of interest to American expansionists. Still others found Alaska tempting and pursued their own designs North of '53. The Spanish, British, Canadians, and even the French plied Alaska’s waters and made their claims to Alyeska- the Great Land. And it is with these clashing imperial ambitions that this three-volume history begins.
Alaska
Author: Claus M. NaskePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.
A Construction History of Sitka, Alaska, as Documented in the Records of the Russian-American Company
Author: Katherine L. ArndtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"It is a Hard Country, Though"
Author: George F. WillissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark OfficePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160732539
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Contains texts of memorial tributes to the late President Ronald Reagan that were delivered in the Congress and the Senate. Also includes information about President Reagan's funeral and memorial services held in Washington and California. Focuses on the life, character, and public service of President Reagan.