Communities of Empire in Early Russian America
by
Gwenn A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
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...