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Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America

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Description for Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7, 4 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBBWK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.

From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church, and competition among Pacific colonial powers, Gwenn A. Miller brings to light the social, political, and economic patterns of life in the settlement, making clear that Russia's modest colonial effort off the Alaskan coast fully depended on the assistance of Alutiiq people.

In this context, Miller argues, the relationships that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501700699
SKU
V9781501700699
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About Gwenn A. Miller
Gwenn A. Miller is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Reviews for Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America
By focusing on the periphery of a great empire, Miller raises the problem of the dialectic between the periphery and the center. She views this problem through the prism of the Kodiak colony as the link between the two poles, the contact zone where they interacted with each other.Kodiak Kreolis a productive attempt to reconstruct the entire imperial project through ... Read more

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