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Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska

Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska

by Stephen Haycox

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 180 PAGES

In this hardhitting economic history of the state, Haycox looks at how Alaska makes its money in fur, oil, timber and fish. The author is a professor of history at the University of Alaska in Anchorage.  (ALA161, $21.95)


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