On the Problem of Alcoholizing the Chukotka Native Population and by Americans in the Late XIX — Early XX Centuries
A.A Yarzutkina
Keywords: trade relations, Chukotka native inhabitants, American merchants, alcoholic drinks
Pages: 11-14
Abstract
This article clarifies the role of the alcoholic drinks in trade relations between Chukotka native inhabitants, American entrepreneurs and Russian Cossacks at the end of the XIX century — the beginning of the XX centuries. Having analyzed economic behavior of trade participants, as well as state policy directed against alcoholizing of the native population in the most remote part of the Russian empire, the author concludes that alcohol played a special role in trade relations in the Chukotka peninsula, and that it was an integral part of trade relations absorbed into local culture.
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