Title Empire maker : Aleksandr Baranov and Russian colonial expansion into Alaska and Northern California / Kenneth N. Owens, with Alexander Yu. Petrov

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) Series A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book Samuel and Althea Stroum book Contents A man of the north -- Siberian merchant capitalist -- Moving to America -- Taking command -- Calamities and catastrophes -- The missionary monks and the chief manager -- Government men, monks, and the Alutiiq Rebellion -- The Russian-American Company -- The Sitka Sound War -- Beyond Alaska -- Averting disasters -- Closing the Baranov era Summary A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia's highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership role after the formation of the Russian American Company in 1799. An adventuresome, dynamic, and charismatic leader, he proved to be something of a commercial genius in Alaska, making huge profits for company partners and shareholders in Irkutsk and St. Petersburg while receiving scandalously little support from the homeland. Baranov receives long overdue attention in Kenneth Owens's Empire Maker, the first scholarly biography of Russian America's virtual imperial viceroy. His eventful life included shipwrecks, battles with Native forces, clashes with rival traders and Russian Orthodox missionaries, and an enduring marriage to a Kodiak Alutiiq woman with whom he had two children. In the process, the book reveals maritime Alaska and northern California during the Baranov era as fascinating cultural borderlands, where Russian, English, Spanish, and New England Yankee traders and Indigenous peoples formed complex commercial, political, and domestic relationships that continue to influence these regions today. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-332) and index Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819. SUBJECT Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819 Baranov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1745-1819 fast Subject Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡ -- History SUBJECT Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡ fast Subject Russians -- Alaska -- History Russians -- California, Northern -- History BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Russians SUBJECT Alaska -- History -- To 1867. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003151 California, Northern -- History Subject Alaska Northern California Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Petrov, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandr I︠U︡rʹevich) LC no. 2021692871 ISBN 9780295805832 0295805838

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