| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867. By Lydia T. Black (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. xv + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

A generation of scholars in Europe and North America has discovered a vast amount of new information concerning Russian America in the past forty years. There have been more than one hundred books of relevant documents published in English alone, mostly translations of foreign language accounts and manuscript journals. Black has been a major contributor to this effort. Now she is the first to provide an over-all synthesis in English that pulls older scholarship and the wealth of new resources together. As an interpretation of an era, her work rivals the much larger Russian language compilation assembled by N. N. Bolkhovitinov (Istorii Ruskoi Ameriki, Moscow, 1997–1999). She brings her profound knowledge of Russian manuscript sources and her research into the anthropology of Alaska Natives, especially Aleuts, into play.

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