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The Great Land: How Western America Nearly Became A Russian Possession.

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Great Land: How Western America Nearly Became A Russian Possession.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
THE GREAT LAND: HOW WESTERN AMERICA NEARLY BECAME A RUSSIAN POSSESSION

By Jeremy Atiyah (North Hollywood, CA: The Parker Press, 2008, 250 pp., $29.95 cloth)

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IF ONE JUDGES Jeremy Atiyah's posthumously published book according to the goal established by the author--to write for a general audience of Americans who still remain unaware of Russia's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century attempts to colonize North America's Pacific coast from Alaska as far south as Fort Ross, California--then The Great Land:...

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