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Author | : Petr Korsakovskiy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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By order of the governor of the Russian-American Company, Korsakovskiy and Vasilev searched for exploration and trade routes in southwestern Alaska. Their accounts provide insights into Native life, trade, and culture. This work includes annotations, footnotes, and an index.
Author | : Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1602232512 |
Download Exploring and Mapping Alaska Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire 18th century. During the next 126 years the struggle to develop and refine geographic knowledge of the vast region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska met with many obstacles, including inclement weather, the chain of supply over great distances, the need to train expert navigators and cartographers, and false leads due to spurious voyage accounts. For much of this era, critical geographic knowledge was kept as a state secret in Russia and not shared, even with the very navigators and cartographers who were developing much needed maps and navigational aids. Despite this, a rich cartographic heritage developed to be carried forward into the American era. The traditional Russian cartographic methods were applied to new discoveries in Siberia and beyond. Early fur traders and explorers utilized this system which for a time co-existed with the new cartographic methodology utilized in Europe and adopted for use by the Russia of Peter the Great. It became an age of scientific exploration. Great Britain, France, Spain, but especially Russia, sent expeditions. An increasingly complete knowledge of the coasts of North America, with forays into the interior, emerged. Postnikov describes the explorations and richly illustrates how the resulting maps evolved and contributed to the world’s knowledge of one of the last great regions of the world to be explored.
Author | : Russian-American mining and exploration company. [from old catalog] |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1900 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496210859 |
Download Russian Colonization of Alaska Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska, or “Russian America,” between 1741 and 1799. Beginning with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov’s discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and ending with the formation of the Russian-American Company’s monopoly of the Russian colonial endeavor in the Americas, Russian Colonization of Alaska offers a definitive, revisionist examination of Tsarist Russia’s foray into the imperial contest in North America. Russian Colonization of Alaska is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy, history, and ethnography. Grinёv’s study elaborates the social, political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and psychological aspects of Russian America. He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies of the natural environment, competition from other North American empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial diplomats. The colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was instead part of overarching Russian and global history.
Author | : James Alton James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1952 |
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ISBN | : |
Download The First Scientific Exploration of Russian America and the Purchase of Alaska Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Orcutt William Frost |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300100594 |
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Om den danske opdagelsesrejsende Vitus Bering (1681-1741) og om hans rejser fra Sibirien til Nordamerika og Alaska
Author | : S. Frederick Starr |
Publisher | : Durham : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Russia's American Colony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American, Canadian, and Soviet scholars gathered in Sitka under the auspices of the Kenan Institute to review and reinterpret the history of tsarist Russia's colonial outpost in Alaska. The result is this comprehensive examination of that history, which goes beyond the traditional concentration on political and diplomatic history by treating the economy, society, and culture of Alaska during the Russian period.
Author | : Philip Laurence Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lydia Black |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1889963046 |
Download Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."
Author | : Stephen W. Haycox |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295986296 |
Download Alaska Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new paper edition of the state's history, which focuses on Russian America and American Alaska.