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Author:

Farrow, Lee A., 1966- author.

Title:

Seward's folly : a new look at the Alaska Purchase / Lee A. Farrow.

Publisher:

University of Alaska Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Seward, William H.--(William Henry),--1801-1872.
Alaska--Annexation to the United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Russia.
Russia--Foreign relations--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Some mysterious sympathy: the foundations of friendship -- Evident advantages: origins and objectives -- Seward's chimerical project: public reaction and ratification -- No longer Russian America: taking possession of Alaska -- Paying for the "new national ice-house": approval and appropriation -- Very uneasy and vexed: international reactions to the purchase -- That snow-bound wilderness: from treaty to territory.

ISBN:

1602233039
9781602233034

OCLC:

(OCoLC)935495253

LCCN:

2016002210

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)