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Autore: | Black Dawn Lea |
Titolo: | Natalia Shelikhova [[electronic resource] ] : Russian oligarch of Alaska commerce / / edited and translated by Dawn Lea Black and Alexander Yu. Petrov |
Pubblicazione: | Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina: | 979.8 |
979.8/01092 | |
979.801092 | |
Soggetto topico: | Businesswomen - Alaska |
Russians - Alaska | |
Soggetto geografico: | Alaska Commerce History 18th century Sources |
Alaska Commerce History 18th century | |
Altri autori: | BlackDawn Lea FalkMarvin W. <1943-> PetrovA. I͡U (Aleksandr I͡Urʹevich) |
Note generali: | Translated from Russian. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Husband and wife -- A global business -- Help from Demidov -- Difficulties and death -- Natalia takes control -- Last struggles -- Appendices: Vital records; Shelikhov family tree; Birth and death dates of the Shelikhovs' children; Family heirs : detailed narrative; Comparative table on the changing number of shares of the Shelikhov clan; General table of shares of the Shelikhov clan; List of names; G.I. Shelikhov's houses in Irkutsk. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American Company, Shelikov worked in Alaska, and her business acumen and wide-ranging connections-including the empress of Russia and a swathe of northern leaders-were crucial to the growth of Alaska's economy, as well as to the welfare of the Native people, in whose life and culture she took a strong interest. The letters, petitions, and personal documents. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Natalia Shelikhova |
ISBN: | 1-60223-066-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791471803321 |
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