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Book American Russian Frontiers

Download or read book American Russian Frontiers written by Survey Associates and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Russia in Frontier America

Download or read book Imperial Russia in Frontier America written by James R. Gibson and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the problems faced by the Russians in Alaska, principally those associated with personnel and food supply. Includes a section on agriculture in Alaska.

Book Siberia Bound

Download or read book Siberia Bound written by Alexander Blakely and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the adventures of an American entrepreneur in Siberia, where he and Russian partner built a multi-million dollar company, and offers insightsnto the life in Novosibirsk.

Book Russian America

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  • Author : Washington State Historical Society
  • Publisher : Tacoma, WA : Washington State Historical Society
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Russian America written by Washington State Historical Society and published by Tacoma, WA : Washington State Historical Society. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the first comprehensive display of the history of Russian North America (Alaska). Articles cover the themes of colonization; Russian-United States relations; and Russian culture in Alaska. Includes numerous photographs and maps.

Book Russia s Muslim Frontiers

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  • Author : Dale F. Eickelman
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1993-10-22
  • ISBN : 9780253208231
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Russia s Muslim Frontiers written by Dale F. Eickelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: the differing approaches of the U.S. and the [former] Soviet Union to Middle East policy, Central Asia, and South Asia . . . provide grounds for self-criticism and the exploration of new directions." —John L. Esposito ". . . recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." —Journal of Third World Studies Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars appraise recent political and religious developments among Russia's Muslim neighbors.

Book Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier written by Jay H. Buckley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America but not only the lands that would eventually be incorporated into the Unites States it also includes the multiple North American frontiers explored by Spain, France, Russia, England, and others. The focus is upon Euro-American activities in frontier exploration and development, but the roles of indigenous peoples in these processes is highlighted throughout. The history of this period is covered through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on explorers, adventurers, traders, religious orders, developers, and indigenous peoples. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the development of the American frontier.

Book Imperial Russia in Frontier America

Download or read book Imperial Russia in Frontier America written by James Ronald Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian America

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  • Author : Ilya Vinkovetsky
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2011-04-06
  • ISBN : 0195391284
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Russian America written by Ilya Vinkovetsky and published by OUP USA. 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 American and Siberian frontier

Download or read book American and Siberian frontier written by and published by Izd-Vo Tomskogo Universiteta. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia s Steppe Frontier

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  • Author : Michael Khodarkovsky
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2004-12-15
  • ISBN : 0253217709
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Russia s Steppe Frontier written by Michael Khodarkovsky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources and archival materials in Russian and Turkic languages, Russia's Steppe Frontier presents a complex picture of the encounter between indigenous peoples and the Russians. It is an original and invaluable resource for understanding Russia's imperial experience. Michael Khodarkovsky is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

Book Eastward to Empire

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  • Author : George V. Lantzeff
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1973-01-01
  • ISBN : 0773593187
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Eastward to Empire written by George V. Lantzeff and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian expansion across Siberia to the Far East.

Book Beyond the Steppe Frontier

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  • Author : Sören Urbansky
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-28
  • ISBN : 0691195447
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Steppe Frontier written by Sören Urbansky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the world The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation’s remarkable transformation—from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers, barbed wire, and border guards. Through the perspectives of locals, including railroad employees, herdsmen, and smugglers from both sides, Sören Urbansky explores the daily life of communities and their entanglements with transnational and global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Urbansky challenges top-down interpretations by stressing the significance of the local population in supporting, and undermining, border making. Because Russian, Chinese, and native worlds are intricately interwoven, national separations largely remained invisible at the border between the two largest Eurasian empires. This overlapping and mingling came to an end only when the border gained geopolitical significance during the twentieth century. Relying on a wealth of sources culled from little-known archives from across Eurasia, Urbansky demonstrates how states succeeded in suppressing traditional borderland cultures by cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections across the state perimeter, through laws, physical force, deportation, reeducation, forced assimilation, and propaganda. Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds critical new light on a pivotal geographical periphery and expands our understanding of how borders are determined.

Book Russian America

Download or read book Russian America written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Frontiers

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  • Author : William G. Bray
  • Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Russian Frontiers written by William G. Bray and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1963 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uyghur Nation

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  • Author : David Brophy
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-04
  • ISBN : 0674660374
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Uyghur Nation written by David Brophy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation.

Book Melting the Ice Curtain

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  • Author : David Ramseur
  • Publisher : University of Alaska Press
  • Release : 2017-06-15
  • ISBN : 1602233349
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Melting the Ice Curtain written by David Ramseur and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988 Friendship Flight reunited Native peoples of common languages and cultures for the first time in four decades. It and other dramatic efforts to thaw what was known as the Ice Curtain launched a thirty-year era of perilous, yet prolific, progress. Melting the Ice Curtain tells the story of how inspiration, courage, and persistence by citizen-diplomats bridged a widening gap in superpower relations. David Ramseur was a first-hand witness to the danger and political intrigue, having flown on that first Friendship Flight, and having spent thirty years behind the scenes with some of Alaska’s highest officials. As Alaska celebrates the 150th anniversary of its purchase, and as diplomatic ties with Russia become perilous, Melting the Ice Curtain shows that history might hold the best lessons for restoring diplomacy between nuclear neighbors.

Book Where Two Worlds Met

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  • Author : Michael Khodarkovsky
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780801425554
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Where Two Worlds Met written by Michael Khodarkovsky and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish sources--including chronicles, epics, travelogues, and previously unstudied Ottoman archival materials--Michael Khodarkovsky offers a fresh interpretation of this long and destructive conflict, which ended with the unruly frontier becoming another province of the Russian empire.Khodarkovsky first sketches a cultural anthropology of the Kalmyk tribes, focusing on the assumptions they brought to the interactions with one another and with the sedentary cultures they encountered. In light of this portrait of Kalmyk culture and internal politics, Khodarkovsky rereads from the Kalmyk point of view the Russian history of disputes between the two peoples. Whenever possible, he compares Ottoman accounts of these events with the Russian sources on which earlier interpretations have been based. Khodarkovsky's analysis deepens our understanding of the history of Russian expansion and establishes a new paradigm for future study of the interaction between the Russians and the non-Russian peoples of Central Asia and Transcaucasia.