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In Darkest Alaska : Travel and Empire along the Inside Passage.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Nature and Culture in America SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201529
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Darkest AlaskaDDC classification:
  • 917.9802
LOC classification:
  • F908 -- .C36 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prologue: Voyage to Brobdingnag -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Continental Drift -- Chapter 2. Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's -- Chapter 3. Scenic Bonanza -- Chapter 4. Frontier Commerce -- Chapter 5. Totem and Taboo -- Chapter 6. Juneau's Industrial Sublime -- Chapter 7. Orogenous Zones: Glaciers and the Geologies of Empire -- Conclusion: Inside Passage -- Epilogue: Out of Alaska -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, travelers returned from Alaska's Inside Passage with fascinating accounts of its wonders. Historian Robert Campbell demonstrates how these tourists served as shock troops of the gold rush by portraying Alaska as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prologue: Voyage to Brobdingnag -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Continental Drift -- Chapter 2. Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's -- Chapter 3. Scenic Bonanza -- Chapter 4. Frontier Commerce -- Chapter 5. Totem and Taboo -- Chapter 6. Juneau's Industrial Sublime -- Chapter 7. Orogenous Zones: Glaciers and the Geologies of Empire -- Conclusion: Inside Passage -- Epilogue: Out of Alaska -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, travelers returned from Alaska's Inside Passage with fascinating accounts of its wonders. Historian Robert Campbell demonstrates how these tourists served as shock troops of the gold rush by portraying Alaska as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest.

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