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An Alaska anthology : interpreting the past /

In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region's pivotal events, significant themes, and major agents, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and ap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haycox, Stephen W., Mangusso, Mary Childers
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Alaska history : an outline
  • Finding America / Raymond H. Fisher
  • Russian dependence on the natives of Alaska / James R. Gibson
  • Ivan Pan'kov : architect of Aleut literacy / Lydia T. Black
  • Astor and Baranov : partners in empire / James P. Ronda
  • Two missions to Alaska / Richard L. Dauenhauer
  • The sale of Alaska in the context of Russian American relations in the nineteenth century / Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov
  • American public opinion and the purchase of Russian America / Richard E. Welch, Jr.
  • "Hemmed in" : reactions in British Columbia to the purchase of Russian America / Richard E. Neunherz
  • The early ministry of S. Hall Young, 1878-1888 / Ted C. Hinckley
  • Female Native teachers in Southeast Alaska : Sarah Dickinson, Tillie Paul, and Frances Willard / Victoria Wyatt
  • Chief Sesui and Lieutenant Herron : a story of who controls the bacon / William Schneider
  • Controlling the periphery : the territorial administration of the Yukon-Alaska, 1867-1959 / Ken Coates
  • Gold rushers north : a census study of the Yukon and Alaska gold rushes, 1896-1900 / James H. Ducker
  • Sourdough radicalism : labor and socialism in Alaska, 1905-1920 / Joseph Sullivan
  • The Pacific salmon fisheries : a study of irrational conservation / James A. Crutchfield and Giulio Pontecorvo
  • Anthony J. Dimond and the politics of integrity / Mary Childers Mangusso
  • The New Deal and Alaskan Natives, 1936-1945 / Kenneth R. Philip
  • Governor Ernest Gruening's struggle for territorial status : personal or political? / Claus-M. Naske
  • The realities of strategic planning : the decision to build the Alaska Highway / M.V. Bezeau
  • Jim Crow in Alaska : the passage of Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 / Terrence M. Cole
  • Economic development and Indian land rights in modern Alaska : the 1947 Tongass Timber Act / Stephen W. Haycox
  • The governor who opposed statehood : the legacy of Jay Hammond / John Whitehead
  • Project Chariot : Alaskan roots of environmentalism / Peter Coates
  • Corruption : Alaska size / John Strohmeyer
  • The end of wilderness / Morgan Sherwood.