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Author Owens, Kenneth N., author.

Title Empire maker : Aleksandr Baranov and Russian colonial expansion into Alaska and Northern California / Kenneth N. Owens ; with Alexander Yu Petrov.

Publication Info. Seattle, [Washington] : University of Washington Press, 2015.
2015

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Description 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations, maps
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Note "Samuel and Althea Stroum books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819.
Rossiisko-amerikanskaia kompaniia -- History.
Russians -- Alaska -- History.
Russians -- California, Northern -- History.
Alaska -- History -- To 1867.
California, Northern -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Petrov, A. IU. (Aleksandr IUrevich), author.
Other Form: Print version: Owens, Kenneth N. Empire maker : Aleksandr Baranov and Russian colonial expansion into Alaska and Northern California. Seattle, [Washington] : University of Washington Press, c2015 xiii, 341 pages 9780295994598 2014041601
ISBN 9780295994598
9780295805832 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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