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Author : Pavel Nikolaevich Golovin
Release : 1983
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Civil and Savage Encounters by : Pavel Nikolaevich Golovin
Download or read book Civil and Savage Encounters written by Pavel Nikolaevich Golovin. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of Pavel N. Golovin, describing voyages from Russia to Europe, the eastern United States, Panama, Acapulco, and San Francisco.
Author : Pavel Nikolaevich Golovin
Release : 1983
Genre : Alaska
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Book Synopsis Civil and Savage Encounters by : Pavel Nikolaevich Golovin
Download or read book Civil and Savage Encounters written by Pavel Nikolaevich Golovin. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of informal correspondence from Pavel N. Golovin to his St. Petersburg family, describing voyages from Russia, the great cities of Western Europe, the eastern seaboard of the United States, across the Isthmus of Panama, to Acapulco and San Francisco.
Author : Pavel N. Golovin
Release : 1983-01-01
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Book Synopsis Civil and Savage Encounters by : Pavel N. Golovin
Download or read book Civil and Savage Encounters written by Pavel N. Golovin. This book was released on 1983-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susanna Rabow-Edling
Release : 2015-10-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Married to the Empire by : Susanna Rabow-Edling
Download or read book Married to the Empire written by Susanna Rabow-Edling. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst of all, they were terrible role models for the Natives, whom the empire saw as in desperate need of moral enlightenment. The empire’s solution? Send in women. In 1829, the Company decreed that any governor appointed after that date had to have a wife, in the hopes that these more pious women would serve as glowing examples of domesticity and bring charm to a brutish territory. Elisabeth von Wrangell, Margaretha Etholén, and Anna Furuhjelm were three of eight governors' wives who took up this domestic mantle. Married to the Empire tells their stories using their own words and though extraordinary research by Susanna Rabow-Edling. All three were young and newly wed when they left Russia for the furthest outpost of the empire, and all three went through personal and cultural struggles as they worked to adjust to life in the colony. Their trials offer a little-heard female history of Russian Alaska, while illuminating the issues that arose while trying to reconcile expectations of womanhood with the realities of frontier life.
Author : Ilya Vinkovetsky
Release : 2011-04-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Russian America by : Ilya Vinkovetsky
Download or read book Russian America written by Ilya Vinkovetsky. This book was released on 2011-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. Russian America was effectively transformed from a remote extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated mainly by Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly modern overseas colony operated by Europeanized Russians. Under the rule of the Russian-American Company, the colony was governed on different terms than the rest of the empire, a hybrid of elements carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial systems. Its economic, labor, and social organization reflected Russian hopes for Alaska, as well as the numerous limitations, such as its vast territory and pressures from its multiethnic residents, it imposed. This approach was particularly evident in Russian strategies to convert the indigenous peoples of Russian America into loyal subjects of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky looks closely at Russian efforts to acculturate the native peoples, including attempts to predispose them to be more open to the Russian political and cultural influence through trade and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing together the history of Russia, the history of colonialism, and the history of contact between native peoples and Europeans on the American frontier, this work highlights how the overseas colony revealed the Russian Empire's adaptability to models of colonialism.
