Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule

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Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule is written by Sonja Luehrmann and published by University of Alaska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1602230102 (ISBN 10) and 9781602230101 (ISBN 13).

Sonja Luehrmann s volume examines Alutiiq history within the larger context of Russian and American expansionism. The author uses source material in both English and Russian in order to create a work focused on the intersection of the two colonial perspectives throwing light on our understanding of the differences in the way each society incorporated the Alutiiq community, both as a labor force and a social entity. In a series of map essays, Luehrmann examines the changing patterns of settlement and demography among the Alutiiq as the population responded to the conditions they encountered: economic exploitation, new cultural influences, intermarriage, disease, and the eruption of Novarupta. The addition of Russian source material fills an important blank in this unique history and makes "Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule "a major resource for anyone working on Alutiiq history or the region s history in the Russian colonial period."