"He Who Holds Alaska Holds The World": Competing International Claims to the Alaskan Territory and North Pacific (1820-1945)
Description
Presentation by Kyley Canion Brewer, PhD candidate in the Department of History at Washington State University and recipient of the 2024 James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowship. Kyley Canion Brewer discusses research informing a larger doctoral dissertation regarding nuclear energy and Alaska during the Cold War. This presentation focuses particularly on the contests for ownership of Alaska, the Bering Strait and region during the nineteenth century (including interests and claims of Russia, the United States, Britain, Japan, Norway and Sweden).
Keywords
Alaska, Cold War, North Pacific, Bering Strait
Document Type
Event
Start Date
15-1-2025 11:00 AM
End Date
15-1-2025 11:30 AM
Location
Virtual
Resource Type
Moving image
Duration
00:26:58
Title of Series
Archives & Special Collections Speaker Series
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Digital object made available by University Archives, Archives & Special Collections, Western Libraries, Western Washington University
Program
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Identifier
cpnws_scottfellow_canionbrewer_20250115
Geographic Coverage
Alaska; Bering Strait
Rights
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Rights Statement
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Language
English
Format
video/vnd.youtube.yt
"He Who Holds Alaska Holds The World": Competing International Claims to the Alaskan Territory and North Pacific (1820-1945)
Virtual
Presentation by Kyley Canion Brewer, PhD candidate in the Department of History at Washington State University and recipient of the 2024 James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowship. Kyley Canion Brewer discusses research informing a larger doctoral dissertation regarding nuclear energy and Alaska during the Cold War. This presentation focuses particularly on the contests for ownership of Alaska, the Bering Strait and region during the nineteenth century (including interests and claims of Russia, the United States, Britain, Japan, Norway and Sweden).