| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 447 p.) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Alaska history : an outline -- Finding America / Raymond H. Fisher -- Russian dependence on the natives of Alaska / James R. Gibson -- Ivan Pan'kov : architect of Aleut literacy / Lydia T. Black -- Astor and Baranov : partners in empire / James P. Ronda -- Two missions to Alaska / Richard L. Dauenhauer -- The sale of Alaska in the context of Russian American relations in the nineteenth century / Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov -- American public opinion and the purchase of Russian America / Richard E. Welch, Jr. -- "Hemmed in" : reactions in British Columbia to the purchase of Russian America / Richard E. Neunherz -- The early ministry of S. Hall Young, 1878-1888 / Ted C. Hinckley -- Female Native teachers in Southeast Alaska : Sarah Dickinson, Tillie Paul, and Frances Willard / Victoria Wyatt -- Chief Sesui and Lieutenant Herron : a story of who controls the bacon / William Schneider -- Controlling the periphery : the territorial administration of the Yukon-Alaska, 1867-1959 / Ken Coates -- Gold rushers north : a census study of the Yukon and Alaska gold rushes, 1896-1900 / James H. Ducker -- Sourdough radicalism : labor and socialism in Alaska, 1905-1920 / Joseph Sullivan -- The Pacific salmon fisheries : a study of irrational conservation / James A. Crutchfield and Giulio Pontecorvo -- Anthony J. Dimond and the politics of integrity / Mary Childers Mangusso -- The New Deal and Alaskan Natives, 1936-1945 / Kenneth R. Philip -- Governor Ernest Gruening's struggle for territorial status : personal or political? / Claus-M. Naske -- The realities of strategic planning : the decision to build the Alaska Highway / M.V. Bezeau -- Jim Crow in Alaska : the passage of Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 / Terrence M. Cole -- Economic development and Indian land rights in modern Alaska : the 1947 Tongass Timber Act / Stephen W. Haycox -- The governor who opposed statehood : the legacy of Jay Hammond / John Whitehead -- Project Chariot : Alaskan roots of environmentalism / Peter Coates -- Corruption : Alaska size / John Strohmeyer -- The end of wilderness / Morgan Sherwood |
| Summary |
In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region's pivotal events, significant themes, and major agents, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more recent threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission and the influence of oil money on inexperienced politicians. Readers may be familiar with an earlier anthology, Interpreting Alaska's History, from which the present volume evolved to accommodate an explosion of research in the previous decade. While a number of the original pieces were found to be irreplaceable, more than half of the essays are new. The result is a fresh perspective on the subject and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and scholars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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| Subject |
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Geschichte
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| SUBJECT |
Alaska -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003150
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Alaska
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Alaska
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Alaska -- Histoire -- Anthologies.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haycox, Stephen W
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Mangusso, Mary Childers
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| LC no. |
2021694763 |
| ISBN |
9780295800370 |
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0295800372 |
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