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Empire Maker - Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California (Hardcover)
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Empire Maker - Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California (Hardcover)
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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.
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