Alaska : a history
"Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region's and state's history, including the Russian period; the territory's painfully attenuated quest for statehood; the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s."--Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780806140407
- ISBN: 0806140402
- Physical Description: xi, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Edition: Third edition.
- Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | First and second editions published under title: Alaska : a history of the 49th state. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-488) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : looking backward and forward -- THE GREAT LAND AND ITS NATIVE PEOPLES: Alaska's prehistory : the land and the first Americans debate -- Alaska's ancestral Native peoples -- ATTCKA : RUSSIAN ALASKA: Russian expansion into Siberia and exploration of North America -- The second Kamchatka expedition -- The early Russian fur trade -- The age of Alexander A. Baranov, 1790-1818 -- Russian naval rule, 1818-67 -- The sale of Russian America -- U.S. TERRITORIAL ALASKA: American settlement of Alaska : the Army, Treasury Department, and Navy phase, 1867-84 -- The great Gold Rush and its aftermath -- Normalcy, the Depression, and the New Deal -- Alaska's strategic role in World War II -- Ramifications of war : evacuations and censorship -- The Cold War -- THE STATE OF ALASKA: Alaska's rocky road to statehood -- Managing Alaska's oil resources -- Transition to statehood -- Alaska's oil economy in the 1970s and 1980s -- Native land claims -- The Native regional corporations -- Land claims and land conservation -- The oil boom -- The oil industry matures -- MODERN ALASKA: The unconventional Walter "Wally" J. Hickel -- The Knowles Years, 1994-2002 -- Into the twenty-first century -- APPENDICES: Commanders in Alaska and effective dates of command : composition and tours of duty of the Alaska garrisons -- Important placer gold discoveries -- Federal District Court judges before statehood -- Delegates to Congress -- Alaska's population, 1880-2003 -- The governors of Alaska -- Native regional corporations. |
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Subject: | n-us-ak Alaska History Alaska Alaska Alaska Alaska History |
Genre: | History. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | AK 979.8 NAS (Text) | 000148823 | Alaskana -- Nonfiction | Available | - |