ABSTRACT

Not all European colonization of North America was transatlantic and westward-moving. Beginning in the late 18th century, Russian Orthodox missionaries and entrepreneurs approached from northeast Asia, moving eastward across the Bering Sea and north Pacific to trap furs and convert natives in North America. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315022703/d8062edf-62f8-4e77-ad3e-fdf43d7f25ef/content/ufig15_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>