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Twenty-five contemporary scholars explore Alaska's pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays give depth to our understanding and appreciation of Alaskan history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission. Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the Norths isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the regions pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more recent threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission and the influence of oil money on inexperienced politicians. Readers may be familiar with an earlier

Author

Stephen W. Haycox and Mary Childers Mangusso

Publisher

Seattle: University of Washington Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295974958

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.2 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14