Alaska : an American colony / Stephen W. Haycox.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Alaska Geography and the Anthropology of Its Native Peoples -- Part I. Russian America -- Russian America, an Introduction -- Russian Eastward Expansion and the Kamchatka Expeditions -- Exploitation and the Origins of the Contest for Sovereignty -- Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company -- Aleksandr Baranov -- Russian America -- The Sale of Russian America -- Part II. 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.

"Alaska, an American Colony traces Alaska's development from the early postcontact period through Russian America and U.S. territorial status and statehood, including an overview of the region's geography and of Alaska's Native peoples, whose involvement in the state's economic, political, and social life and development continues to this day. In contrast to the stereotype of Alaska as a place where rugged individualists triumph over a harsh environment, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox offers a less romantic, more complex history of Alaska's past and the similarities between Alaska and the American West."--

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