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Russians --- History --- Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡. --- Alaska --- California --- Russia --- Colonies --- History.

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This collection begins with a chapter that links human and ecological systems research to analyze resource management decisions for Alaska's first submerged aquatic invasive plant, Elodea spp. A case study is presented which may aid other countries in management of Elodea by outlining steps for future policy-making with the goal of retaining the ecological integrity and economic value of Alaska's vast freshwater resources. The second chapter makes use of the De Martonne aridity index and the UNEP Index to determine the humidity of Alaska's Prince William Sound. The indices for climate variability indicate higher humidity in the western sides and lower humidity in the eastern sides. These results highlight the spatial distribution of the climate variables in Prince William Sound from Southcentral Alaska. The third chapter analyzes the Bering Glacier in southern Alaska for its size resultant from complexities of geographical position, accumulation area, and climate conditions. The results of the analysis illustrate the high variation of the Bering Glacier movements in response to climate change. The concluding chapter examines the beginning of orderly social policy in Russian America in 1784, when well-known merchant G.I. Shelikhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement on Kodiak Island off the southern coast of Alaska. A certain impetus to social policy was created by the monopoly Russian-American Company after naval officers came to power in Russian colonies in 1818. The Russian-American Company abolished slavery, increased payments for furs, supplied natives with food during hunger strikes, and conducted mass vaccinations. Thus, the life of the Aleuts and dependent Eskimos improved slowly, but gradually.

Elodea --- Introduced freshwater organisms --- Humidity --- Glaciers --- Organismes d'eau douce introduits --- Air --- Geographic information systems --- Humidité --- Systèmes d'information géographique --- Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡ --- History. --- 1700-1899 --- Alaska --- Social conditions.

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The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst of all, they were terrible role models for the Natives, whom the empire saw as in desperate need of moral enlightenment. The empire’s solution? Send in women. In 1829, the Company decreed that any governor appointed after that date had to have a wife, in the hopes that these more pious women would serve as glowing examples of domesticity and bring charm to a brutish territory. Elisabeth von Wrangell, Margaretha Etholén, and Anna Furuhjelm were three of eight governors' wives who took up this domestic mantle. Married to the Empire tells their stories using their own words and though extraordinary research by Susanna Rabow-Edling. All three were young and newly wed when they left Russia for the furthest outpost of the empire, and all three went through personal and cultural struggles as they worked to adjust to life in the colony. Their trials offer a little-heard female history of Russian Alaska, while illuminating the issues that arose while trying to reconcile expectations of womanhood with the realities of frontier life.

Governors' spouses --- Russians --- Ethnology --- Slavs, Eastern --- Governors --- Governors' wives --- Spouses --- Wives --- Wrangel, Elisabeth von, --- Etholøn, Margaretha, --- Furuhjelm, Anna, --- Etholøn, Hedvig Johanna Margaretha, --- Von Wrangel, Elisabeth, --- Rossillon, Elisabeth de, --- Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai͡a kompanii͡a. --- Russian-American Company --- Russian America Company --- Российско-американская компания --- Under His Imperial Majesty's Highest Protection Russian-American Company --- Под высочайшим Его Императорского Величества покровительством Российская-Американская Компания --- Pod vysochaĭshim Ego Imperatorskogo Velichestva pokrovitelʹstvom Rossiĭskai︠a︡-Amerikanskai︠a︡ Kompanii︠a︡ --- Alaska --- Sitka (Alaska) --- Sitka, Alaska --- Sitkha (Alaska) --- Sitka City and Borough (Alaska) --- Sitka Borough (Alaska) --- City & Borough of Sitka (Alaska) --- City and Borough of Sitka (Alaska) --- History --- Etholon, Margaretha, --- Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡ --- Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡. --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ --- AK --- Alaasika --- ʻĀlaka --- Alasca --- Alasijia --- Alasijia Zhou --- Alaska Eyâleti --- Alaska osariik --- Alaska Territory --- Alasḳah --- Alasko --- Alaszka --- Ali︠a︡sk --- Ali︠a︡ska --- Aljaška --- Allaesŭkʻa --- Allaesŭkʻa-ju --- Allaesŭkʻaju --- Alyaska --- Alyaska Shitati --- Arasuka --- Arasuka-shū --- Arasukashū --- Civitas Alascae --- Estado de Alaska --- Estado ng Alaska --- Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo --- Medinat Alasḳah --- Politeia tēs Alaska --- Russian America --- Russkai︠a︡ Amerika --- Shtat Ali︠a︡ska --- State of Alaska --- Statul Alaska --- Territory of Alaska --- Πολιτεία της Αλάσκα --- Αλάσκα --- Аљаска --- Аляск --- Аляска --- Алјаска --- Русская Америка --- Штат Аляска --- אלאסקע --- אלסקה --- מדינת אלסקה --- アラスカ --- アラスカ州 --- 阿拉斯加 --- 阿拉斯加州 --- 알래스카 --- 알래스카 주 --- 알래스카주 --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-k --- Ali͡ask --- Ali͡aska --- Arasuka-sh --- Arasukash --- Russkai͡a Amerika --- Shtat Ali͡aska --- Alaska.