Empire Maker
Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4954130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria I Zhuravleva (0000-0003-4690-2686, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 469-470 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaw220 |
| OpenAlex | W2802847204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Father Michael Oleksa, an adherent of the “romantic revisionism” interpretation of Russian America, branded Aleksandr Baranov, the chief manager of the Russian-American Company (formerly the Golikov-Shelikhov Company), as “the Stalin of Alutiiq history” (p. 272). Is this true? Who was this man to his contemporaries, both compatriots and the natives of Russia's overseas colonies in Alaska and northern California? Is it possible to put Baranov in the ranks of the great builders of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial empires, with all of the negative and positive characteristics that marked them and their times? Kenneth N. Owens's book answers these questions and many others. Based on archival sources, Empire Maker paints a colorful picture of Baranov as a merchant and an entrepreneur, a pioneer, and a frontiersman, an administrator and a diplomat, and integrates him into natural, ecological, sociocultural, geopolitical, and economic contexts. This work is not merely the first comprehensive and well-researched biography of Baranov but also a valuable contribution to the multilayered and interdisciplinary study of Russian overseas colonialism
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biography · Colonialism · Empire · Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Canadian Identity and History · History · Latin American history and culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |