Alaska : an American colony / Stephen Haycox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haycox, Stephen W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alaska--History.

Alaska.

History.

Indians of North America--Alaska.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

xv, 372 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2002]

Summary:

Throughout "Alaska, an American Colony, " Haycox stresses the continuing involvement of Alaska Natives in the states economic, political, and social life and development. He also explores the power of myth in historical representations of Alaska and the controlling influence of national perceptions of the region.

Contents:

Introduction: Alaska Geography and the Anthropology of Its Native Peoples 3

Part 1 Russian America

1 Russian America, an Introduction 37

2 Russian Eastward Expansion and the Kamchatka Expeditions 40

3 Exploitation and the Origins of the Contest for Sovereignty 53

4 Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company 71

5 Aleksandr Baranov 88

6 Russian America 115

7 The Sale of Russian America 147

Part 2 American Alaska

8 American Alaska, an Introduction 159

9 Taking the Measure of Alaska: The Alaska Purchase and the Politics of the Early Economy 170

10 National Currents in Alaska: The Gold Rush and Progressive Reform 201

11 Pioneer Alaska: The Last Frontier 236

12 War and the Transition to Statehood 257

13 Modern Alaska: The Last Wilderness 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-361) and index.

ISBN:

0295982497

OCLC:

49225731