Sewards Folly

Author : Lee A. Farrow
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602233039
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seward's Folly written by Lee A. Farrow and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alaska Purchase—denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke—is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just what the Alaska Purchase was, how it came about, its impact at the time, and more. Farrow shows why both America and Russia had plenty of good reasons to want the sale to occur, including Russia’s desire to let go of an unprofitable, hard-to-manage colony and the belief in the United States that securing Alaska could help the nation gain control of British Columbia and generate closer trade ties with Asia . Farrow also delves into the implications of the deal for foreign policy and international diplomacy far beyond Russia and the United States at a moment when the global balance of power was in question. A thorough, readable retelling of a story we only think we know, Seward’s Folly will become the standard book on the Alaska Purchase.

Author : Susan Clinton
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516047270
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Seward's Folly written by Susan Clinton and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1987 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Secretary of State William Seward's controversial but successful efforts to purchase Alaska from Russia for the United States in 1867.

Author : Walter Stahr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439121184
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seward written by Walter Stahr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a profile of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals," examining the many political roles he had in his lifetime, including governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Lincoln's closest advisor during the Civil War.

Author : Edison Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seward's Folly written by Edison Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical novel of the intrigues behind the purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Author : Melissa Whitcraft
Publisher : Children's Press (Dublin)
ISBN 13 : 9780516225258
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seward's Folly written by Melissa Whitcraft and published by Children's Press (Dublin). This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.

Author : Hex Kleinmartin
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502609711
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seward’s Folly and Alaska written by Hex Kleinmartin and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1867, United States Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia. It was called "Seward's Folly" because Alaska was thought to be a frozen wasteland. Discover the circumstances and geopolitical effects of the Alaska purchase in Seward's Folly and Alaska.

Author : Phillip Christian
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105853349
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Bicentennial Seward's Folly Expeditionary Force and Drinking Society written by Phillip Christian and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. B. Bernard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762794283
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Alaska written by C. B. Bernard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C. B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, he threw himself into the state once known as Seward’s Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine environment, forming a landscape view of the place that had lured him and “Uncle Joe,” both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now.

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0804151423
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Alaska “Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes. . . . Alaska takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”—Boston Herald “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—The New York Times

Author : Michelle Nevius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416593934
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Apple written by Michelle Nevius and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's fascinating past. This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking-tour guide, with 14 self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today.