Record details

• ISBN: 1889963046 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 1889963054 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xv, 328 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
• Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Fairbanks, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-314) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Long-established pattern -- Hand of Moscow -- Great land-new Russia-is claimed -- Toward the unknown islands -- Game for high stakes -- Age of Catherine the Great -- Empire builders -- Baranov arrives -- Baranov takes hold -- Baranov extends the empire -- Rezanov's tour and Baranov's final years -- After Baranov -- Rise of the Creole class -- Light of the spirit: Orthodox church in Alaska -- Company under the three charters, 1799-1862 -- Flag was ordered down.

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Subject:

Alaska > History > To 1867.
Alaska > Discovery and exploration > Russian.
Russians > Alaska > History > 18th century.
Russians > Alaska > History > 19th century.
Fur trade > Alaska > History > 18th century.
Fur trade > Alaska > History > 19th century.
Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819.
Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai͡a kompanii͡a.
Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska.