Since the early eighteenth century the Russians had

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• Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 369-372 · open book

  Since the early eighteenth century the Russians had dominated the fur trade in the North Pacific islands, but after depleting the Aleutians of animals Rus sia took its final cut by selling Alaska to the United States for $7,200,000 in 1867.

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