Alaska : An American Colony

by Haycox, Stephen W.

• ISBN13: 9780295982496
• ISBN10: 0295982497
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Author Biography

Stephen Haycox is professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction: Alaska Geography and the Anthropology of Its Native Peoples	p. 3
Russian America
Russian America, an Introduction	p. 37
Russian Eastward Expansion and the Kamchatka Expeditions	p. 40
Exploitation and the Origins of the Contest for Sovereignty	p. 53
Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company	p. 71
Aleksandr Baranov	p. 88
Russian America	p. 115
The Sale of Russian America	p. 147
American Alaska
American Alaska, an Introduction	p. 159
Taking the Measure of Alaska: The Alaska Purchase and the Politics of the Early Economy	p. 170
National Currents in Alaska: The Gold Rush and Progressive Reform	p. 201
Pioneer Alaska: The Last Frontier	p. 236
War and the Transition to Statehood	p. 257
Modern Alaska: The Last Wilderness	p. 273
Epilogue	p. 313
Notes	p. 319
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 363
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