Nichols, Jeannette Paddock; Alaska : A History of its Administration, Exploitation, and Industrial Development during its First Half Century under the Rule of the United States; Cleveland: Arthur H Clark 1924. 456 pages. Hardcover.
Alaska - History - 19th Century Alaskan History - 20th Century Alaska - Territory Alaskan Politics - United States History Of Law - Alaska Alaskana Alaska - Public Administration
Very Good-/noDJ. Light spine wear, light cover rub, light tone, 1924 gift inscription, top edge gilt, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.
Detailed history of Alaska's unusual political evolution to Home Rule. Crisp fold-out map delineates Alaska's 3 judicial districts. "The laws of geography, of economics, of politics have conspired to subject Alaska to a peculiar series of misfortunes. To a great degree the administration of her affairs has been most misguided. The consequence has been that she has spent forty-five ears in painfully acquiring the political status commonly accorded to our territories after a comparatively brief and uneventual novitiate. She belonged to the United States seventeen years before she had any legal government whatsoever. Sixteen more years passed before Congress determined what laws should guide her people in their daily conduct. Another six years elapsed before the territory was permitted an official representative at the national capital, and an equal and additional length of time before the pioneers were permitted to take any part in making the local laws under which they were governed. What follows aims to narrate the course of events in Alaska during the half century when her legislature, Congress, was located five thousand miles away." - Preface.

Very Good-/noDJ. Light spine wear, light cover rub, light tone, 1924 gift inscription, top edge gilt, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.

9.75 x 6.63 x 1.75 in

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