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Title:
Empire maker : Aleksandr Baranov and Russian colonial expansion into Alaska and Northern California
JLCTITLE245:
Kenneth N. Owens with Alexander Yu. Petrov.
Personal Author:
Owens, Kenneth N, author.
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
xiii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780295994598
Series:
A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Personal Subject:
Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819.
Subject Term:
Russians -- Alaska -- History.

Russians -- California, Northern -- History.
Geographic Term:
Alaska -- History -- To 1867.

California, Northern -- History.
Added Author:
Petrov, A. I͡U. (Aleksandr I͡Urʹevich).
Contents:
A man of the north -- Siberian merchant capitalist -- Moving to America -- Taking command -- Calamities and catastrophes -- The missionary monks and the chief manager -- Government men, monks, and the Alutiiq Rebellion -- The Russian-American Company -- The Sitka Sound War -- Beyond Alaska -- Averting disasters -- Closing the Baranov era.
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