Stephen Haycox , professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage, is author of Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska and coeditor of An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past.
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Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction: Alaska Geography and the Anthropology of Its Native Peoples PART ONE: RUSSIAN AMERICA Russian America, an Introduction Russian Eastward Expansion and the Kamchatka Expeditions Exploitation and the Origins of the Contest of Sovereignty Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company Aleksandr Baranov Russian America The Sale of Russian America PART TWO: AMERICAN ALASKA 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 Progressive Reform Pioneer Alaska: The Last Frontier War and the Transition to Statehood Modern Alaska: The Last Wilderness Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
"Deeply and methodically researched, carefully and accurately presented, Haycox's argument is clear: Alaska's peoples have been relatively powerless to determine their future, despite being the ones who best know Alaska. As debate continues over the exploitation of Alaska's remaining oilfields, this is a point of view that must be heard." Booklist "Interspersed with the concise direct narrative are illuminating insights into the role of outside forces on Alaska and the failure of all attempts to make this area self-sufficient within the contemporary economy." Choice