Alaska : a history

Naske, Claus-M. (author.). Slotnick, Herman E., 1916-2002 (author.).

Summary:

"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.