Alaska: An American colony

Introduction: Alaska geography and the anthropology of its native peoples. Russian America: An introduction; Russian eastward expansion and the Kamchatka expeditions; Exploitation and the origins of the conccept of sovereignty; Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American company; Aleksandr Baranov; Russian America; The sale of Russian America. American Alaska: An introduction; Taking the measure of Alaska: The Alaska purchase and the politics of the early economy; National currents in Alaska: The gold rush and progessive reform; Pioneer Alaska: the last frontier; War and the transition to statehood; Modern Alaska: the last wilderness.