Russian America

Posted By admin on Apr 6, 2014

Ilya Vinkovetsky Russian America An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867 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...