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PublisherUniversity of Washington Press

ISBN-100295994592

ISBN-139780295994598

eBay Product ID (ePID)210314075

Product Key Features

Number of Pages355 Pages

Publication NameEmpire Maker : Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion Into Alaska and Northern California

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Adventurers & Explorers

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorKenneth N. Owens

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight22.4 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-041601

ReviewsThis is an highly enjoyable book about a part of America that few people in America would even know about. The author does an excellent job of placing Mr. Baranov in his time and the events that would influence him. An excellent book about a man very people know about.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal979.8/02092 B

Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgments 1. A Man of the North 2. Siberian Merchant Capitalist 3. Moving to America 4. Taking Command 5. Calamities and Catastrophes 6. The Missionary Monks and the Chief Manager 7. Government Men, Monks, and the Alutiiq Rebellion 8. The Russian-American Company 9. The Sitka Sound War 10. Beyond Alaska 11. Averting Disasters 12. Closing the Baranov Era Abbreviations: Russian Archival Repositories Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisA native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia?s highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership role after the formation of the Russian American Company in 1799. An adventuresome, dynamic, and charismatic leader, he proved to be something of a commercial genius in Alaska, making huge profits for company partners and shareholders in Irkutsk and St. Petersburg while receiving scandalously little support from the homeland. Baranov receives long overdue attention in Kenneth Owens?s Empire Maker , the first scholarly biography of Russian America?s virtual imperial viceroy. His eventful life included shipwrecks, battles with Native forces, clashes with rival traders and Russian Orthodox missionaries, and an enduring marriage to a Kodiak Alutiiq woman with whom he had two children. In the process, the book reveals maritime Alaska and northern California during the Baranov era as fascinating cultural borderlands, where Russian, English, Spanish, and New England Yankee traders and indigenous peoples formed complex commercial, political, and domestic relationships that continue to influence these regions today., A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia's highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership role after the formation of the Russian American Company in 1799. An adventuresome, dynamic, and charismatic leader, he proved to be something of a commercial genius in Alaska, making huge profits for company partners and shareholders in Irkutsk and St. Petersburg while receiving scandalously little support from the homeland. Baranov receives long overdue attention in Kenneth Owens's Empire Maker , the first scholarly biography of Russian America's virtual imperial viceroy. His eventful life included shipwrecks, battles with Native forces, clashes with rival traders and Russian Orthodox missionaries, and an enduring marriage to a Kodiak Alutiiq woman with whom he had two children. In the process, the book reveals maritime Alaska and northern California during the Baranov era as fascinating cultural borderlands, where Russian, English, Spanish, and New England Yankee traders and indigenous peoples formed complex commercial, political, and domestic relationships that continue to influence these regions today.

LC Classification NumberSB

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