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Alaska : an American colony
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Alaska : an American colony

Author: Stephen W Haycox
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2006, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Arguing the common theme that links the Russian and American eras of Alaskan history is colonialism.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen W Haycox
ISBN: 0295986298 9780295986296
OCLC Number: 71301884
Description: xv, 372 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Russian America, an introduction -- Russian eastward expansion and the Kamchatka expeditions -- Exploitation and the origins of the contest for sovereignty -- Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company -- Aleksandr Baranov -- Russian America -- Sale of Russian America -- American Alaska, an introduction -- Taking the measure of Alaska; the Alaska purchase and the politics of the early economy -- National currents in Alaska; The gold rush and progressive reform -- Pioneer Alaska; the Last Frontier -- War and the transition to statehood -- Modern Alaska; the last wilderness.
Responsibility: Stephen Haycox.

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Arguing the common theme that links the Russian and American eras of Alaskan history is colonialism.

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