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Book A History of the Russian American Company

Download or read book A History of the Russian American Company written by Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of Russian book first published in 1861-63 concerning Russian colonization in Alaska. Comprehensive history of the Russian-American Company.

Book A History of the Russian American Company

Download or read book A History of the Russian American Company written by Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of Russian book first published in 1861-63 concerning Russian colonization in Alaska. Comprehensive history of the Russian-American Company.

Book A History of the Russian American Company

Download or read book A History of the Russian American Company written by Petr Aleksandrovič Tichmenev and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Russian American Company in California

Download or read book The Russian American Company in California written by Ynez D. Haase and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. The company was chartered by Tsar Paul I in the Ukase of 1799. Its mission was to establish new settlements in Russian America, conduct trade with natives, and carry out an expanded colonization program. The focus of this thesis is on the economic history of the Russian American Company in California designed to answer such questions as: Why did the Russian Company come? Who were the people involved? What did the Russian farms look like and what did the Company do?

Book Russian America

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  • Author : Hector Chevigny
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Russian America written by Hector Chevigny and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact, fast-moving social and political history that brings to vivid life the story of Alaska's early days. Its name was not Alaska until we bought it in 1867. Until then it was Russian America. Americans at large are apt to forget that our 49th state, Alaska, was first explored and settled by the Russians. They left a definite mark on the vast Northwest. -- Amazon.

Book Documents on the History of the Russian American Company

Download or read book Documents on the History of the Russian American Company written by Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai͡a kompanii͡a and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian America

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  • Author : Ilya Vinkovetsky
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-06
  • ISBN : 0199930821
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Russian America written by Ilya Vinkovetsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. Russian America was effectively transformed from a remote extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated mainly by Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly modern overseas colony operated by Europeanized Russians. Under the rule of the Russian-American Company, the colony was governed on different terms than the rest of the empire, a hybrid of elements carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial systems. Its economic, labor, and social organization reflected Russian hopes for Alaska, as well as the numerous limitations, such as its vast territory and pressures from its multiethnic residents, it imposed. This approach was particularly evident in Russian strategies to convert the indigenous peoples of Russian America into loyal subjects of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky looks closely at Russian efforts to acculturate the native peoples, including attempts to predispose them to be more open to the Russian political and cultural influence through trade and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing together the history of Russia, the history of colonialism, and the history of contact between native peoples and Europeans on the American frontier, this work highlights how the overseas colony revealed the Russian Empire's adaptability to models of colonialism.

Book Documents on the History of the Russian American Company

Download or read book Documents on the History of the Russian American Company written by Российско-американская компания and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of Kistorii Rossiisko-Amerikanskoi Kompanii (Sbornik dokumental'nykh materialov) published in Krasnoiarsk in 1957. Includes copies of correspondence, orders and reports of officials of the Russian-American Company. Includes an historical calendar of the Company.

Book The Russian American Company

Download or read book The Russian American Company written by Semen Bent͡sianovich Okunʹ and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russians in Alaska  1732 1867

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."

Book A History of the Russian American Company

Download or read book A History of the Russian American Company written by Petr A. Tikhmenev and published by Alaska Limestone Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplement to Tikhmenev, P.A. "A history of the Russian American Company". Includes copies of correspondence, orders and reports of officials of the Russian-American Company.

Book The Russian American Company

Download or read book The Russian American Company written by S. B. Okun and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Historical Review of Formation of the Russian American Company and Its Activity Up to the Present Time

Download or read book The Historical Review of Formation of the Russian American Company and Its Activity Up to the Present Time written by Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kodiak Kreol

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  • Author : Gwenn A. Miller
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-21
  • ISBN : 1501701401
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Kodiak Kreol written by Gwenn A. Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church, and competition among Pacific colonial powers, Gwenn A. Miller brings to light the social, political, and economic patterns of life in the settlement, making clear that Russia's modest colonial effort off the Alaskan coast fully depended on the assistance of Alutiiq people. In this context, Miller argues, the relationships that developed between Alutiiq women and Russian men were critical keys to the initial success of Russia's North Pacific venture. Although Russia's Alaskan enterprise began some two centuries after other European powers—Spain, England, Holland, and France—started to colonize North America, many aspects of the contacts between Russians and Alutiiq people mirror earlier colonial episodes: adaptation to alien environments, the "discovery" and exploitation of natural resources, complicated relations between indigenous peoples and colonizing Europeans, attempts by an imperial state to moderate those relations, and a web of Christianizing practices. Russia's Pacific colony, however, was founded on the cusp of modernity at the intersection of earlier New World forms of colonization and the bureaucratic age of high empire. Miller's attention to the coexisting intimacy and violence of human connections on Kodiak offers new insights into the nature of colonialism in a little-known American outpost of European imperial power.

Book Otter Skins  Boston Ships and China Goods

Download or read book Otter Skins Boston Ships and China Goods written by James R. Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Gibson's thoroughly researched and highly detailed study is the first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America.

Book Big Business In Russia

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  • Author : Jonathan A. Grant
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2010-11-23
  • ISBN : 0822977311
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Big Business In Russia written by Jonathan A. Grant and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan A. Grant has written a highly original study of the Putilov works—the most famous industrial conglomerate in the Russian Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With the emergence of a capitalist system in the Russian federation in the 1990s, scholarly debate over the nature of Russian capitalism has been revived, and with this study, Grant issues a major challenge to the conventional wisdom on the nature of the Russian economy in the years before the Bolshevik revolution. Grant argues that the Putilov Company, which manufactured arms for the Russian state and a wide range of heavy industrial equipment for civilian use, adopted business practices that resembled the experiences of large machinery and armaments manufacturers in Britain, France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Germany. This interpretation runs directly counter to the traditional and widely held view that Russian capitalism was shaped by the tsarist state's orders and subsidies and that the tsarist system was incompatible with the development of modern capitalism. Grant makes direct comparisons between Putilov and the famous western firm of Krupp and Vickers, illustrating similar business decisions made by both companies in terms of diversification of the product line and a penchant for private (as opposed to state) markets for primary income. Grant has gone beyond Soviet works on the Putilov plant, examining archival documents of the company and offering critical comments on both Soviet and Western scholarship on Russian economic and social history from the perspective of this important industrial enterprise. Grant not only repeatedly demonstrates that the Putilov firm responded effectively to the changing market for its wide range of industrial products but also shows that the tsarist regime provided far more of the "systemic regularity" needed for capitalist development than generally believed. Grant's work is a significant contribution to this ongoing debate, offering a much-needed case study of Russian business history and a comparative study that extends across national boundaries. Big Business in Russia is essential reading for graduate students in Russian and European history and will also appeal to American and European business leaders eager to understand the historical background of the current economic challenges facing Russia.

Book Historical Review of the Origin of the Russian American Company and Its Activity Up to the Present Time

Download or read book Historical Review of the Origin of the Russian American Company and Its Activity Up to the Present Time written by United States. Work Projects Administration and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: