ISBN:
9780199838387
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89171073
Keywords:
Rossiisko-amerikanska?i?a kompani?i?a -- History
;
Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska
;
Indians of North America -- Alaska -- History -- 19th century
;
Russians -- Alaska -- History -- 19th century
;
Russians -- North America -- History -- 19th century
;
Alaska -- Colonization
;
Alaska -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
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Abstract:
Interpreting Russia's nineteenth-century colonial system in Alaska, Russian America looks at how the Russians governed the indigenous people of their American colony and the ways in which they drew upon their experience in Siberia and other imperial models.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Terminology -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Paradox of Overseas Colonialism for a Continental Empire -- PART ONE: BUILDING A COLONIAL SYSTEM -- 2 From Siberia's Frontier to Russia's Colony -- 3 Contractor of Empire -- 4 Indigenous Labor and Colonial Insecurities -- PART TWO: MAKING NATIVES RUSSIAN -- 5 Colonial Trade and Co-optation in a Russian Key -- 6 Dependence, Family, and Russianization -- 7 Building a Colonial Diocese -- Conclusion: The Meaning of 1867 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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