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Book Russian Exploration in Southwest Alaska

Download or read book Russian Exploration in Southwest Alaska written by Petr Korsakovskiy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By order of the governor of the Russian-American Company, Korsakovskiy and Vasilev searched for exploration and trade routes in southwestern Alaska. Their accounts provide insights into Native life, trade, and culture. This work includes annotations, footnotes, and an index.

Book The Russian American Mining and Exploration Company  Alaska Territory  1900

Download or read book The Russian American Mining and Exploration Company Alaska Territory 1900 written by Russian-American mining and exploration company. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Scientific Exploration of Russian America and the Purchase of Alaska

Download or read book The First Scientific Exploration of Russian America and the Purchase of Alaska written by James Alton James and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bering

    Book Details:
  • Author : Orcutt William Frost
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300100594
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Bering written by Orcutt William Frost and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den danske opdagelsesrejsende Vitus Bering (1681-1741) og om hans rejser fra Sibirien til Nordamerika og Alaska

Book Russian Colonization of Alaska

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  • Author : Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv
  • Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 1496210859
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Russian Colonization of Alaska written by Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska, or “Russian America,” between 1741 and 1799. Beginning with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov’s discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and ending with the formation of the Russian-American Company’s monopoly of the Russian colonial endeavor in the Americas, Russian Colonization of Alaska offers a definitive, revisionist examination of Tsarist Russia’s foray into the imperial contest in North America. Russian Colonization of Alaska is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy, history, and ethnography. Grinёv’s study elaborates the social, political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and psychological aspects of Russian America. He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies of the natural environment, competition from other North American empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial diplomats. The colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was instead part of overarching Russian and global history.

Book Russian Exploration in North America

Download or read book Russian Exploration in North America written by Philip Laurence Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lieutenant Zagoskin s Travels in Russian America  1842 1844

Download or read book Lieutenant Zagoskin s Travels in Russian America 1842 1844 written by Lavrentiĭ Alekseevich Zagoskin and published by Published for the Arctic Institute of North America by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes and references to principal text: 284-301.

Book Alaska

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen W. Haycox
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780295986296
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Alaska written by Stephen W. Haycox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new paper edition of the state's history, which focuses on Russian America and American Alaska.

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 Where the Sea Breaks Its Back

Download or read book Where the Sea Breaks Its Back written by Corey Ford and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A splendid account of the final voyage of explorer Vitus Bering and of the life of naturalist Georg Steller (1709-1746), who accompanied Bering on the 1741 crossing into the uncharted North Pacific.

Book Russian America

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  • Author : Hector Chevigny
  • Publisher : Binford & Mort Publishing
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Russian America written by Hector Chevigny and published by Binford & Mort Publishing. This book was released on 1965 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book V  S  Khromchenko s Coastal Explorations in Southwestern Alaska  1822

Download or read book V S Khromchenko s Coastal Explorations in Southwestern Alaska 1822 written by V. S. Khromchenko and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated journal gives early trade, ethnographic, linguistic and geographical data. Extensive introduction and explanatory footnotes by Vanstone give a consolidated summary of persons and events in the early nineteenth century history of Russian America.

Book Count Nikolai Rumiantsev and Russian Exploration of Alaska and North America

Download or read book Count Nikolai Rumiantsev and Russian Exploration of Alaska and North America written by Vladimir Svyatoslavovich Kusov and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Count Nikolai Rumiantsev and Russian exploration of Alaska and North America

Download or read book Count Nikolai Rumiantsev and Russian exploration of Alaska and North America written by Vladimir Svi︠a︡toslavovich Kusov and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paper presented at the Western Association of Map Libraries, 1991 Fall Conference, Western Washington University.

Book Exploring and Mapping Alaska

Download or read book Exploring and Mapping Alaska written by Alexey 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 eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska. The forces of nature and the follies of human error conspired to make the area incredibly difficult to map. Exploring and Mapping Alaska focuses on this foundational period in Arctic cartography. Russia spurred a golden era of cartographic exploration, while shrouding their efforts in a veil of secrecy. They drew both on old systems developed by early fur traders and new methodologies created in Europe. With Great Britain, France, and Spain following close behind, their expeditions led to an astounding increase in the world’s knowledge of North America. Through engrossing descriptions of the explorations and expert navigators, aided by informative illustrations, readers can clearly trace the evolution of the maps of the era, watching as a once-mysterious region came into sharper focus. The result of years of cross-continental research, Exploring and Mapping Alaska is a fascinating study of the trials and triumphs of one of the last great eras of historic mapmaking.

Book Russian Exploration  from Siberia to Space

Download or read book Russian Exploration from Siberia to Space written by Brian Bonhomme and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of geographical discovery and exploration, a well-known cast of European characters and events takes center stage. While the importance of achievements by Columbus, Cortes, Magellan, Cook, Lewis and Clark, and Neil Armstrong remains unassailable, the participation of Russia in the European era of exploration, conquest, expansion, and colonization deserves equal attention. This study provides a narrative survey and critical analysis of a rich but overlooked tradition of geographical exploration by Russians and others in Russian service since 1580. Following Russian pioneers across Siberia, Alaska, Brazil, Hawaii and the Pacific, Central Asia, Australasia, the Arctic and Antarctic, and into space, this work establishes Russia in the history of world exploration and connects the Russian experience of exploration to Russian national identity past and present.

Book An  oshi Lingit Aan   K

Download or read book An oshi Lingit Aan K written by Nora Dauenhauer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation Winner of the 2009 Alaska Library Association's Alaskana of the Year Award The Battles of Sitka were seminal events in the history of the Tlingit people, in the multicultural history of Alaska, and, ultimately, in the history of America. The Tlingits saw themselves as victors even as they formally ceded to the Russians the site of their village and fort, now knows as Sitka. This book covers the period from the first arrival of European and American fur traders in Tlingit territory to the establishment of a permanent Russian presence in the Pacific Northwest. It presents transcriptions and English translations of Tlingit oral traditions recorded almost fifty years ago and translations of newly available Russian historical documents. Although independent in origin and transmission, these accounts support one another to a remarkable degree on the main historical point. The Tlingit-Russian conflict is usually presented as a confrontation between "whites" with superior arms, and brave but outnumbered and poorly armed Natives. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Tlingits saw themselves as victors even as they formally ceded to the Russians the site of their village and fort, now known as Sitka. Setting aside ancient rules of story ownership, a new generation of Tlingit clan leaders has decided to publish the stories told by their ancestors so that the Tlingit point of view would be known and succeeding generations would not forget their people's history. Including Russian historical documents, travelers' accounts of information interactions between the formerly warring parties after the battles, and Dr. W. Schuhmacher's work on the role played by British and American skippers, this book inquires into and provides some answers to the fundamental question, Who owns history? Photographs of objects now in Russian and American museums - from the favorite battle hammer of Tlingit war chief Katlian to the metal ceremonial hat Baranov commissioned for the peace ceremony - enrich the book, along with portraits of key historical figures and eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century charts of Tlingit territory. Also included is the journal of Dmitrii Tarkhanov, a gazetteer, a glossary, Tlingit and Russian name lists, and an index.