Title Seward's folly : a new look at the Alaska Purchase / Lee A. Farrow.

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Description	1 online resource
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Some mysterious sympathy: the foundations of friendship -- Evident advantages: origins and objectives -- Seward's chimerical project: public reaction and ratification -- No longer Russian America: taking possession of Alaska -- Paying for the "new national ice-house": approval and appropriation -- Very uneasy and vexed: international reactions to the purchase -- That snow-bound wilderness: from treaty to territory.
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Subject	Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
	Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
	Alaska -- Annexation to the United States.
	Alaska.
	Annexation to the United States.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia.
	United States.
	International relations.
	Russia.
	Russia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Farrow, Lee A., 1966- Seward's folly. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2016 9781602233034 (DLC) 2016002210
ISBN	9781602233041 (electronic book)
	1602233047 (electronic book)
	9781602233034 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	1602233039