Seward's folly : a new look at the Alaska Purchase /
Farrow, Lee A., 1966-
Seward's folly : a new look at the Alaska Purchase / Lee A. Farrow. - Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Some mysterious sympathy: the foundations of friendship -- Evident advantages: origins and objectives -- Seward's chimerical project: public reaction and ratification -- No longer Russian America: taking possession of Alaska -- Paying for the "new national ice-house": approval and appropriation -- Very uneasy and vexed: international reactions to the purchase -- That snow-bound wilderness: from treaty to territory.
9781602233041
2016002692
Seward, William H. 1801-1872.
Electronic Books.
E669 / .S493 2016
Seward's folly : a new look at the Alaska Purchase / Lee A. Farrow. - Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Some mysterious sympathy: the foundations of friendship -- Evident advantages: origins and objectives -- Seward's chimerical project: public reaction and ratification -- No longer Russian America: taking possession of Alaska -- Paying for the "new national ice-house": approval and appropriation -- Very uneasy and vexed: international reactions to the purchase -- That snow-bound wilderness: from treaty to territory.
9781602233041
2016002692
Seward, William H. 1801-1872.
Electronic Books.
E669 / .S493 2016