Alaska

An American Colony

Stephen W. Haycox (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2015
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99599-1 (ISBN)

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Alaska has not evolved in a vacuum. It has been part of larger stories: the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation to Western culture, the spread of European political economy to the New World, and the expansion of American capitalism and culture.

Alaska, an American Colony focuses on Russian America and American Alaska, bringing the story of Alaska up to the present and exploring the continuing impact of Alaska Native claims settlements, the trans-Alaska pipeline, and the Alaska Lands Act. In contrast to the stereotype of Alaska as a place where rugged individualists triumph over the harsh environment, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox offers a less romantic, more complex history that emphasizes the broader national and international contexts of Alaska's past and the similarities between Alaska and the American West. Covering cultural, political, economic, and environmental history, the book also includes an overview of the region's geography and the anthropology of Alaska's Native peoples.

Throughout Alaska, an American Colony, Haycox stresses the continuing involvement of Alaska Natives in the state's 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.

Stephen Haycox , professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage, is author of Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska and coeditor of An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past.

Prologue
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Alaska Geography and the Anthropology of Its Native Peoples
PART ONE: RUSSIAN AMERICA
Russian America, an Introduction
Russian Eastward Expansion and the Kamchatka Expeditions
Exploitation and the Origins of the Contest of Sovereignty
Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company
Aleksandr Baranov
Russian America
The Sale of Russian America
PART TWO: AMERICAN ALASKA
American Alaska, an Introduction
Taking the Measure of Alaska: The Alaska Purchase and the Politics of the Early Economy
National Currents in Alaska: The Gold Rush and Progressive Reform
Pioneer Alaska: The Last Frontier
War and the Transition to Statehood
Modern Alaska: The Last Wilderness
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	Alaska
Zusatzinfo	38 illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	757 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-295-99599-8 / 0295995998
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99599-1 / 9780295995991
Zustand	Neuware