The Acquisition Of Alaska

Author : Archibald Williamson Shiels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purchase of Alaska written by Archibald Williamson Shiels and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters, Senator Sumner's speech, and press opinions supporting the Purchase Treaty of Alaska in 1867.

Author : Victor John Farrar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Alaska written by Victor John Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Victor John Farrar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purchase of Alaska written by Victor John Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Sterngass
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 : 9781617530906
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Acquisition of Alaska written by Jon Sterngass and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Hansen
Publisher : Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781878668356
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purchase of Alaska written by Ellen Hansen and published by Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA). This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology includes excerpts from the Alaska Treaty, correspondence between Secretary of State Seward and Russian Foreign Minister Stoeckl, Senator Charles Sumner's speech to the U.S. Senate, reactions of the press, an excerpt from Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of Alaska, and short essays by historian Ellen Hansen.

Author : George Dell McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Alaska written by George Dell McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hunter Miller
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alaska Treaty written by David Hunter Miller and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally prepared for the U.S. Department of State's series "Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of America", but never published. Examines the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Author : Virginia Hancock Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purchase of Alaska written by Virginia Hancock Reid and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232512
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring and Mapping Alaska written by Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.