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Alaska's first American century: the view ahead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Terris Moore
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Alaska and Canada have recently been celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of those separate events, both occurring in 1867, which gave birth to their modern political alignment.

Because of its geographical position, Alaska's history, more than that of any other state of the union, developed in response to international events. Its original Russian occupation, and its acquisition by the United States a century ago, emerge from the history of eastern Siberia, and are related to events in the region of the river Amur, once a part of the ancient Chinese empire. Its purchase also carried with it a boundary dispute merging Alaska's history with that of western Canada.

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Polar Record , Volume 14 , Issue 88 , January 1968 , pp. 3 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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