Duke University Press, 1986 Cloth: 978-0-8223-0688-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-9794-6 Library of Congress Classification F907.R976 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 979.802
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction / S. Frederick Starr 1
Part One. Opening the New World
The Discovery of Russian America / B. P. Polevoi 13
Russian Expansion in Siberia and America: Critical Contrasts / James R. Gibson 32
Part Two. The Tsars and Their American Colony
The Russian American Company and the Imperial Government: Early Phase / Mary E. Wheeler 43
Toward a History of the Liquidation of the Russian American Company / Raisa V. Makarova 63
Part Three. Russians and Native Americans
Russian Dependence upon the Natives of Alaska / James R. Gibson 77
Relations with the Natives of Russian America / R. G. Liapunova 105
Part Four. Cultural Life in Russian America
The Early Architecture and Settlements of Russian America / Anatole Senkevitch Jr. 147
The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska / Antoinette Shalkop 196
Science and Education in Russian America / E. A. Okladnikova 218
Part Five. Russian America and the United States
Russian America and International Relations / N. N. Bolkhovitinov 251
The Sale of Russian America to the United States / James R. Gibson 271
The Significance of the Alaska Purchase to American Expansion / Howard I. Kushner 295
Part Six. Russian America: The Documents
Published Sources on Russian America / Patricia Polansky 319
Archival and Bibliographic Materials on Russian America outside the USSR / Richard A. Pierce 353
Duke University Press, 1986 Cloth: 978-0-8223-0688-7 eISBN: 978-0-8223-9794-6
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction / S. Frederick Starr 1
Part One. Opening the New World
The Discovery of Russian America / B. P. Polevoi 13
Russian Expansion in Siberia and America: Critical Contrasts / James R. Gibson 32
Part Two. The Tsars and Their American Colony
The Russian American Company and the Imperial Government: Early Phase / Mary E. Wheeler 43
Toward a History of the Liquidation of the Russian American Company / Raisa V. Makarova 63
Part Three. Russians and Native Americans
Russian Dependence upon the Natives of Alaska / James R. Gibson 77
Relations with the Natives of Russian America / R. G. Liapunova 105
Part Four. Cultural Life in Russian America
The Early Architecture and Settlements of Russian America / Anatole Senkevitch Jr. 147
The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska / Antoinette Shalkop 196
Science and Education in Russian America / E. A. Okladnikova 218
Part Five. Russian America and the United States
Russian America and International Relations / N. N. Bolkhovitinov 251
The Sale of Russian America to the United States / James R. Gibson 271
The Significance of the Alaska Purchase to American Expansion / Howard I. Kushner 295
Part Six. Russian America: The Documents
Published Sources on Russian America / Patricia Polansky 319
Archival and Bibliographic Materials on Russian America outside the USSR / Richard A. Pierce 353