The Us Acquisition Of Alaska

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 : Ronald J. Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295953762
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alaska Purchase and Russian-American Relations written by Ronald J. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Russian-American relations during the time of the Alaska purchase, giving an explanation of the agreement and its role in the history of the two countries.

Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian-American Relations and the Sale of Alaska, 1834-1867 written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the events leading up to the sale of Alaska to the United States.

Author : Lydia Black
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1889963046
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 written by Lydia Black and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

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 : Archibald Williamson Shiels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( 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 244 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 : 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 : John Virtue
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600392
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway written by John Virtue and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a "mongrel" race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.

Author : Truman R. Strobridge
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1867-1915 written by Truman R. Strobridge and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia in 1867, the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (USRCS) made its first appearance in the Bering Sea. Over the next forty-eight years the ships and men of the USRCS firmly established U.S. sovereignty in the area and performed amazing acts of rescue and humanitarian aid - contributions that have received little attention until the publication of this book. Bringing together widely scattered documentation and records, maritime historians Dennis Noble and Truman Strobridge chronicle events in the service's colorful history.

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: