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This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Blacks work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and womenthe merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergywho established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sourcesmany have never before been published. An i

Author

Black, Lydia T

Publisher

University of Alaska Fairbanks; University of Alaska Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781889963044

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.36 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13