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Author: Ronald J. Jensen
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780295953762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of Russian-American relations during the time of the Alaska purchase, giving an explanation of the agreement and its role in the history of the two countries.
Author: Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of the events leading up to the sale of Alaska to the United States.
Author: Lee A. Farrow
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1602233039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Alaska Purchase—denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke—is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just what the Alaska Purchase was, how it came about, its impact at the time, and more. Farrow shows why both America and Russia had plenty of good reasons to want the sale to occur, including Russia’s desire to let go of an unprofitable, hard-to-manage colony and the belief in the United States that securing Alaska could help the nation gain control of British Columbia and generate closer trade ties with Asia . Farrow also delves into the implications of the deal for foreign policy and international diplomacy far beyond Russia and the United States at a moment when the global balance of power was in question. A thorough, readable retelling of a story we only think we know, Seward’s Folly will become the standard book on the Alaska Purchase.
Author: Howard I. Kushner
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Morton Callahan
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee A. Farrow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1350107190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and defying social mores. By 1871, President Grant and his Cabinet requested that he be recalled. But the timing of this request overlapped with the visit of the tsar's son to the USA - a celebrated diplomatic event symbolising the friendship and good will between the two nations. Consequently, Catacazy was allowed to travel with the tsar's son, but only as a persona non grata. This tense resolution led many to worry about the future of the Russian-American friendship. With a keen sense of the human interest, Lee A. Farrow demonstrates that this affair was one of the earliest significant complications in the relationship between Russia and the USA. Using a lively micro-historical approach and fresh materials such as the letters of Catacazy and of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish from archives in the USA, UK and Russia, Farrow explores 19th-century politics and diplomacy, and the pre-suffrage power of women in the political arena through an investigation of the Washington wives' reactions to the controversial figure of Olga Catacazy. The result is a cutting-edge analysis of this pivotal episode in modern history.
Author: David Ramseur
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1602233349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988 Friendship Flight reunited Native peoples of common languages and cultures for the first time in four decades. It and other dramatic efforts to thaw what was known as the Ice Curtain launched a thirty-year era of perilous, yet prolific, progress. Melting the Ice Curtain tells the story of how inspiration, courage, and persistence by citizen-diplomats bridged a widening gap in superpower relations. David Ramseur was a first-hand witness to the danger and political intrigue, having flown on that first Friendship Flight, and having spent thirty years behind the scenes with some of Alaska’s highest officials. As Alaska celebrates the 150th anniversary of its purchase, and as diplomatic ties with Russia become perilous, Melting the Ice Curtain shows that history might hold the best lessons for restoring diplomacy between nuclear neighbors.
Author: Norman E. Saul
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1867 - the year of the Alaskan purchase - and the beginning of World War I, Russian and American dignitaries, diplomats, businessmen, writers, tourists, and entertainers crossed between the two countries in surprisingly great numbers. Concord and Conflict provides the first comprehensive investigation of this highly transformational and fateful era in Russian-American relations. Excavating previously unmined Russian and American archives, Norman Saul illuminates these fifty significant - and open - years of association between the two countries. He explores the flow and fluctuation of economic, diplomatic, social, and cultural affairs; the personal and professional conflicts and scandals; and the evolution of each nation's perception of the other.
Author: Norman E. Saul
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon more than two decades of research in secondary and documentary publications as well as archival materials from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain, Saul reveals a wealth of new detail about contacts between the two countries between the American Revolutionary War and the purchase of Alaska in 1867.
