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.