Alaska: Promyshlennik and Sourdough

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1952

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Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Terra-cotta cloth with gilt on spine. This book traces the history of Alaska from the explorations of Bering up to 1945. Beginning with a chapter on "The Land", the author devotes the next 11 of 19 chapters to the Russian period of Alaska's history. The remaining 7 concern the American period. The book covers Russian exploration and settlement along the shores of northwestern America, of the Russian -American company and its great general manager, Baranov. A whole chapter on the attempt of Russia to establish a monopoly of the north Pacific in the face of increasing encroachment by British and American traders. Clean copy. Record # 472132.

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Title
Alaska: Promyshlennik and Sourdough
Author
Stuart Ramsay Tompkins
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK
Publication year
1952
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover

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