Feeding the Russian Fur Trade : Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639-1856.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Perspective and Context -- 1 Historical Background: Occupation and Exploitation of the Russian Far East -- 2 Geographical Background: Physical and Cultural Setting of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula -- 3 The Problem of Provisionment -- PART II. Overland-Oversea Provisionment -- 4 Introduction -- 5 Routes and Carriers -- 6 Performance -- 7 Transport Problems -- 8 Reactions -- PART III. Local Agriculture -- 9 Introduction -- 10 Agricultural Settlement -- 11 Production -- 12 Agricultural Problems -- 13 Reactions -- PART IV. Retrospect -- 14 Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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