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Author : Robert A. Frederick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 0943712009
Author : Claus M. Naske,Herman E. Slotnick
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806186139
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132335022
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780635092526
This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The History Project Book includes creating a cartoon panel to describe how your state name may have come about, creating a fort replica, making a state history museum, dressing up as a famous explorer and recreating the main discovery, and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.
Author : Claus-M. Naske
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 080612573X
History of the state of Alaska from early to contemporary times, discussing its native peoples, sale to the United States, gold rush, quest for statehood, and oil boom.
Author : William R. Hunt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393243604
Cliches about Alaska are legion: to mention the name is to conjure up images of the Frozen North, mushing huskies, and grizzled sourdoughs panning for gold. In this book, author William R. Hunt shows how misleading such images are. Alaska, writes William R. Hunt, is not the "last wilderness," and it has not been built solely by the self-reliant efforts of hardy pioneers. Instead, it has struggled from its earliest days as an American possession until today for government aid to support commercial and economic development. The real story of Alaska is the story inherent in the disparity between government policies urged by Alaskans and government policies actually dictated from Washington, DC. The issue of conservation versus development makes Alaska of special interest to all Americans today. Our northernmost state is not what most Americans on the "Outside" think it is; but as author Hunt shows, all Americans have a stake in the future of Alaska and therefore can benefit from understanding the reality of its colorful history.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : General Books
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 0217486916
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CONVERSION OF NATIVES. 703 which was supported by a number of columns of the Byzantine order. On the altar was a miniature tomb of the saviour in gold and silver. The vestments and implements were also rich in gold and jewels. The books were bound in gold and crimson velvet, and adorned with miniatures of the evangelists set in diamonds. The communion cup was of gold, and similarly embellished; the mitre was covered with pearls, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. The building was dedicated to Saint Michael.11 Veniaminof, after acquiring the Aleutian language, translated into it a number of books touching on the doctrines of his church; but. with this exception few of the ecclesiastics understood the native dialects, while the interpreters had little knowledge of Russian. Between 1841 and 1860, 4,700 Indians were baptized,13 and if we can believe Veniaminof, some of them were converted. "I do not mean," he writes, "that they knew how to make the sign of the cross, and to bow, and mutter some prayer. No! Some of them can pray from their soul, not exhibiting themselves in the church and before the people, but often in the seclusion of their chamber, with closed doors."13 The bishop, who on his appointment adopted the title of Innokenty, according to the custom of his church, labored with marked success among the Kolosh. Before his arrival they had resisted all efforts at conversion, those who were baptized submitting to the ceremony only because they received presents of more or less value.14 11 Ward's Three Weeks in Sitka, MS., 29-31, 35-37. The cathedral was roofed with iron, and the belfry and chimes cost 8,500 roubles in silver. Tikhmenef, Istor. Obos., ii. 268. Tho church at St Paul, Kadiak, is built of hewn timber, the interstices being filled with moss. The interio...
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793360314
Author : Stephen W. Haycox,Mary Childers Mangusso
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800370
Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region’s pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very 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 past 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.
Author : John W. Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1330166353
Excerpt from An Abridged History of Alaska The knowledge, exploration and invasion of Alaska during the past twelve years has at last successfully revealed its true condition and future possibilities. The fur-seeking Russians made no accurate maps and little recorded history; the land-grabbing English explorers and navigators only cruised along its shores, naming everything in sight; the gold-seeking Spanish found no fable fountains or glittering gold and hardly left their mark. All made extravagantly pessimistic or mythical reports and exaggerated guesses or prophecies. Thousands of adventurers, searching for the Northwest Passage, for Sir John Franklin, for fur, fish or gold, lost their lives on its ocean or river shores. Of them history is as silent and unknown as their graves. After over a hundred years of ownership, the Russians at the time they sold it (1867) were ready to abandon it as worse than worthless. Had it not been for the debt of gratitude due to Russia the Congress and people of the United States would never have acquiesced in its purchase. For the first ten years the United States made only a formal military show of authority, with no government, and the following seven years abandoned it. providing no law, officers or protection. No reliable general history has yet been written of Alaska. Numerous reports and histories of a local nature have been written, however, mostly by persons officially engaged in or simply passing through the country; and while, as a rule, they are perfectly reliable as to a particular locality or subject, they are very unreliable and inaccurate as to the remainder of that country. Authors residing at Sitka for a year or less, or making a tourist's trip on the Inside Passage, or doing a little missionary work at one or two places, or passing down the Yukon within a month or two, or spending a summer at Nome, are very numerous. Their tales of death, starvation, Arctic winter, pitch-dark, endless nights, insanity-making mosquitoes, bloodthirsty Indians, lands, mountains and rivers of ice and general wail of calamity and terror, followed by novels of several authors so full of exaggerations and untruthful or mythical statements, have created a false impression in the minds of the people which now is very hard to correct. They are largely to blame for the government's tardy and scant attention to the needs and laws of the country, for the delays in settling it, utilizing its resources and wrongfully giving it an unjust history and lamentably untrue reputation. The author has devoted three years to diligently seeking information, and in person or by assistant has visited or investigated as far as possible all parts and subjects of Alaska. The important matter collected would fill a half dozen large volumes. It all seems necessary. We have nevertheless summarized it for the purpose of making a convenient volume for the student, tourists and Alaska miners, as well as for the general reading public. We hope two years later to present a more complete history of Alaska than has yet been published from the data for which this book has been compiled. Although we have brought this publication down to 1909, events so rapidly succeed each other that we will hardly be off the press before some portions will seem behind the times. We hope that the information herein, with such as will be imparted through the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition now ready to open at Seattle, will go far to show Alaska in a true light, and correct the errors and misapprehensions so generally prevalent now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190797072X
Plunge into the wild climate of unknown Alaska in this riveting travel account.
Author : Jean Morgan Meaux
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804729
This collection of Alaskan adventures begins with a newspaper article written by John Muir during his first visit to Alaska in 1879, when the sole U.S. government representative in all the territory's 586,412 square miles was a lone customs official in Sitka. It closes with accounts of the gold rush and the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Jean Meaux has gathered a superb collection of articles and stories that captivated American readers when they were first published and that will continue to entertain us today. The authors range from Charles Hallock (the founder of Forest and Stream, a precursor of Field and Stream) to New York society woman Mary Hitchcock, who traveled with china, silver, and a 2,800 square foot tent. After explorer Henry Allen wore out his boots, he marched barefoot as he continued mapping the Tanana River, and Episcopal Archdeacon Hudson Stuck mushed by dog sled in Arctic winters across a territory encompassing 250,000 miles of the northern interior. Although the United States acquired Alaska in 1867, it took more than a decade for American writers and explorers to focus attention on a territory so removed from their ordinary lives. These writers-adventurers, tourists, and gold seekers-would help define the nation's perception of Alaska and would contribute to an image of the state that persists today. This collection unearths early writings that offer a broad view of American encounters with Alaska accompanied by Meaux's lively and concise introductions. The present-day adventurer will find much to inspire exploration, while students of the American West can gain new access to this valuable trove of pre-Gold Rush Alaska archives. For more information go to: http://www.inpursuitofalaska.com
Author : Juliana Hu Pegues
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469656199
As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire. In this richly theorized work, Juliana Hu Pegues evaluates four key historical periods in U.S.-Alaskan history: the Alaskan purchase, the Gold Rush, the emergence of salmon canneries, and the World War II era. In each, Hu Pegues recognizes colonial and racial entanglements between Alaska Native peoples and Asian immigrants. In the midst of this complex interplay, the American colonial project advanced by differentially racializing and gendering Indigenous and Asian peoples, constructing Asian immigrants as "out of place" and Alaska Natives as "out of time." Counter to this space-time colonialism, Native and Asian peoples created alternate modes of meaning and belonging through their literature, photography, political organizing, and sociality. Offering an intersectional approach to U.S. empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labor exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska is essential to understanding both U.S. imperial expansion and the machinations of settler colonialism.
Author : Susan B. Andrews,John Creed
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803259336
In this lively and sometimes poignant collection of essays and autobiographies, nearly fifty Alaska Native writers tell of their unique way of life and bear witness to the sweeping cultural changes occurring in their lifetimes. They explore a range of experiences and issues, including skinning a polar bear; traditional domestic and subsistence practices; marriage customs; alcoholism; the challenges and opportunities of modern education; balancing traditional and contemporary demands; discrimination; adapting to urban life; the treatment of Native peoples in school textbooks; and the social realities of speaking standard and “village” English. With its fresh perspectives and unfailingly authentic voices, this collection is essential for an understanding of Alaska Native peoples today.
Author : Lawrence Rakestraw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015061376789
