http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2213 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:34:52 GMT 2026-02-05T16:34:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/11122/15667 Beaver, Alaska: The story of a multi-ethnic community Schneider, William This work addresses itself to the role that ethno-historical research can play in understanding the present day life of Indians and Eskimos living in a multi-ethnic community in the interior of Alaska. To do this, an attempt has been made to write and analyze the history of the community in a manner that reflects the separate tribal, ethnic, and individual differences of the various people who settled there. Documentation of cultural patterning by different groups enables the researcher to understand the dynamics of cultural persistence and change throughout time in land use, social relations, economic pursuits, attitudes and values. This research does not presuppose that individuals and groups who are influenced by outside intrusions will necessarily respond by changing their ways of life. Instead, the problem has been to investigate the nature of the outside influences and the manner in which these intrusions are perceived by members of the community and the nature of the responses made to them. Written documentation is employed to set an order to the events, but my main reliance is on personal recollections of past events to discern the feelings and associations that people today hold for those forces that have affected their lives in the past and that are now operating PhD Dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 1976 Mon, 01 Mar 1976 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11122/15667 1976-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4356 The Conquest, Settlement and Initial Development of New Russia (the Southern Third of the Ukraine): 1780-1837 Lynch, Donald F. This geographic study of the southern third of the Ukraine (New Russia) between 1700 and 1837 shows that the Russian government succeeded in conquering the region from Turkey and settling its lands with loyal subjects, but failed to pursue policies which would have facilitated the area's economic development. By conquering and settling New Russia, the government secured the southern boundary of its grain surplus producing regions from foreign attack and obtained a foothold on the Black Sea coast. The failure to promote development effectively, however, not only retarded the region’s economic growth but also left it unprepared to meet foreign competition in world markets during the 1840s. The government’s success is indicated by victories over the Turkish army and navy, the establishment of naval bases, two of which became important commercial ports (Odessa and Taganrog), the removal or neutralization of potentially hostile indigenous peoples, and fairly rapid population growth. The failure in economic development was not truly apparent until the late 1830s and early 1840s. In the first three decades of the nineteenth century the region established a significant foreign trade in grain and wool and employed about half of its total area for agriculture. The people, however, continued to use the extensive, low yield systems of agriculture originally developed by the Tatars and Cossacks and the government failed to improve the vitally important overland transportation system. By the late 1830s, increasing traffic caused a critical transportation problem and in the mid 1840s foreign competition created difficulties for the region's low quality exports. The government attempted to solve these difficulties by investing money in canals that were never completed, importing steamboats that were seldom used to carry goods, making plans for railroads that were not to be built until the 1860s, encouraging the interbreeding of Merino and native sheep, and building roads in the mountainous part of the Crimea. These well-intentioned measures failed to attack the central problems of improving the quality of exported grains and wool and improving the efficiency and the speed of the overland transportation system. They indicate that the government wished to foster change, but did not know how to do so because it did not understand the region's true requirements. Wed, 01 Jan 1964 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4356 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2229 A History of the Alaska Federal District Court System, 1884-1959, and the Creation of the State Court System Naske, Claus M. Prepared Pursuant to RSA 410059 between the Alaska Court System and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska. Mon, 01 Jul 1985 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2229 1985-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2228 Alaska Road Commission Historical Narrative Naske, Claus M. Wed, 01 Jun 1983 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2228 1983-06-01T00:00:00Z