Book ID: CBB595775374

Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938 (2015)

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Tower, Elizabeth A. (Author)


Old Stone Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xiv + 337 pp.
Language: English

Icebound Empire is about industry and politics on the Last Frontier. It is the epic story of three men caught up in the early twentieth century battle for control of Alaska's land and resources. George Cheever Hazelet, Stephen Birch, and David Henry Jarvis were prime movers in the most ambitious early Alaska development initiative -- the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate. These three men convinced New York investors to provide capital to build the Kennecott copper mines and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, but opposition from political opportunists, Eastern conservationists and muckraking journalists stifled further industrial development on the last frontier. (Amazon)

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Review Justin Spivey (Fall/Winter 2015) Review of "Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938". Railroad History (p. 110). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Arapostathis, Stathis
Dimka, Jessica
Gioia, Vitantonio
Kumar, Deepak
Kurz, Heinz D.
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik
Journals
Journal of Geophysical Research
Agricultural History
American Historical Review
History and Technology
History of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Minnesota
Bloomsbury Academic
Giuffrè
Harvard University Press
IEEE
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Economic development
Agriculture
Pioneers
Imperialism
Colonialism
Environmental sciences
People
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
Nobel, Emanuel Ludvig
Nobel, Ludvig
Nobel, Immanuel
Nobel, Robert
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
17th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Alaska (U.S.)
United States
Canada
Russia
Great Britain
Cyprus
Institutions
Glacier National Park
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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