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Alaska : a history / Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick.

Naske, Claus-M. (Author). Slotnick, Herman E., 1916-2002 (Added Author).

Summary:

"Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region's and state's history, including the Russian period; the territory's painfully attenuated quest for statehood; the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780806140407 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0806140402 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xi, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
  • Edition: 3rd ed.
  • Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : looking backward and forward -- THE GREAT LAND AND ITS NATIVE PEOPLES: Alaska's prehistory : the land and the first Americans debate -- Alaska's ancestral Native peoples -- ATTCKA : RUSSIAN ALASKA: Russian expansion into Siberia and exploration of North America -- The second Kamchatka expedition -- The early Russian fur trade -- The age of Alexander A. Baranov, 1790-1818 -- Russian naval rule, 1818-67 -- The sale of Russian America -- U.S. TERRITORIAL ALASKA: American settlement of Alaska : the Army, Treasury Department, and Navy phase, 1867-84 -- The great Gold Rush and its aftermath -- Normalcy, the Depression, and the New Deal -- Alaska's strategic role in World War II -- Ramifications of war : evacuations and censorship -- The Cold War -- THE STATE OF ALASKA: Alaska's rocky road to statehood -- Managing Alaska's oil resources -- Transition to statehood -- Alaska's oil economy in the 1970s and 1980s -- Native land claims -- The Native regional corporations -- Land claims and land conservation -- The oil boom -- The oil industry matures -- MODERN ALASKA: The unconventional Walter "Wally" J. Hickel -- The Knowles Years, 1994-2002 -- Into the twenty-first century -- APPENDICES: Commanders in Alaska and effective dates of command : composition and tours of duty of the Alaska garrisons -- Important placer gold discoveries -- Federal District Court judges before statehood -- Delegates to Congress -- Alaska's population, 1880-2003 -- The governors of Alaska -- Native regional corporations.

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Alaska > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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