| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867. By Lydia T. Black. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. xvi, 328 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 1-889963-04-6. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-889963-05-4.)

A book reviewer rarely gets the opportunity to call a book definitive. Lydia T. Black's Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867, is such a book. She has incorporated the conclusions of recent monographs, scoured the newly opened Russian archives from Moscow to Siberia, and exhaustively researched Spanish and German sources. The result is the first comprehensive scholarly synthesis of Alaska's Russian period, with copious explanatory footnotes that evaluate the sources and defend her conclusions. While her focus is on Russians in Alaska, she does not neglect the larger contexts and effects of geopolitics, international trade, diplomacy, warfare, and political intrigue. In addition, social, religious, economic, and cultural analyses are woven throughout the largely commercial history.

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