Author: John W. Brown
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Summarizes material collected by the author to provide an accurate and up-to-date history.
Author: William R. Hunt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1976-12-17
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0393243605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cliches about Alaska are legion: to mention the name is to conjure up images of the Frozen North, mushing huskies, and grizzled sourdoughs panning for gold. In this book, author William R. Hunt shows how misleading such images are. Alaska, writes William R. Hunt, is not the "last wilderness," and it has not been built solely by the self-reliant efforts of hardy pioneers. Instead, it has struggled from its earliest days as an American possession until today for government aid to support commercial and economic development. The real story of Alaska is the story inherent in the disparity between government policies urged by Alaskans and government policies actually dictated from Washington, DC. The issue of conservation versus development makes Alaska of special interest to all Americans today. Our northernmost state is not what most Americans on the "Outside" think it is; but as author Hunt shows, all Americans have a stake in the future of Alaska and therefore can benefit from understanding the reality of its colorful history.
Author: Alaska Historical Commission
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alaska American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
Publisher:
Published: 1974*
Total Pages: 5
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alfred P. Swineford
Publisher: Chicago ; New York : Rand, McNally and Company
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harry Ritter
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780882404325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively, take-along account of Alaska's sweeping history, from pre-contact Native times, to the Gold Rush, to the present.
Author: Stephen W. Haycox
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0295746874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with and accommodation to Western culture; the spread of European political economy to the New World; the expansion of American capitalism and culture; and the impacts of climate change. In this updated classic, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox surveys the state’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era, Haycox explores the ever-evolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions that have dominated the area, highlighting Native agency, advocacy, and resilience. Throughout, he emphasizes the region’s systemic dependence on both federal support and outside corporate investment in natural resources—furs, gold, copper, salmon, oil—and offers a less romantic, more complex history that acknowledges the broader national and international contexts of Alaska’s past.