E-book
Alaska : an American colony
Record details
- ISBN: 9780295986296
- ISBN: 0295986298
- ISBN: 9780295982496
- ISBN: 0295982497
- ISBN: 0295998679
- ISBN: 9780295998671
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 372 pages, [32] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
remote - Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2002.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. History. |
