RUSSIAN SETTLEMENT IN THE NORTH
Written by Terence Armstrong
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1965
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- RUSSIA
RUSSIAN SETTLEMENT IN THE NORTH
Written by Terence Armstrong.
Stock no. 2139441
1965.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Grey cloth with blue title label, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Scott Polar Research Institute Special Publication Number 3. Ex-lib. with some usual stamps and markings. Wrapper has corners of front flap cut off. Some edge-creasing, chipping and browning.
Front cover
Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- BACKGROUND AND BEGINNINGS
- 1 The environment
- 2 The coming of the Russians
- European Russia
- Siberia
- Alaska
- North Siberian travel in the seventeenth century
- PART II
- SETTLEMENT UNDER THE TSARS
- 3 Consolidation: the numbers of settlers
- Kol'skiy Poluostrov
- The Pechora region
- Islands of the European north
- The Ob' valley
- The Yenisey valley
- The Lena valley
- The Kolyma valley and Chukotka
- The Okhotsk Sea littoral and Kamchatka
- Russian America
- 4 Consolidation: the character of settlement
- Hunters and traders
- Servants of the state
- Peasants
- Exiles and convicts
- Religious groups
- Miners
- General character of Russians in northern Siberia
- Life in northern Siberia in the nineteenth century
- 5 Government policy
- Foreign influences
- 6 Relations with the natives
- PART III
- SETTLEMENT SINCE 1917
- 7 The number of settlers
- 8 The character of the settlement
- Miners
- Transport workers
- Farmers, fishers and lumbermen
- Other workers
- Convicts and exiles
- 9 Government policy
- Foreign influences
- 10 Relations with the native
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDICES
- GLOSSARY OF RUSSIAN TERMS USED IN THE TEXT
- REFERENCES
- INDEX