Russian California, 1806-1860: A History in Documents (Hakluyt Society) Hardcover - 2014

James R. Gibson is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto, where he taught from 1966 until 2000; he has also taught at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. An historical geographer, his speciality is Russia's eastward expansion, particularly in the Northwest Coast sphere of imperial rivalry. He is the author, editor, and translator of some 140 publications, including Feeding the Russian Fur Trade (1969) and Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods (1992), which received several awards. Professor Gibson was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1972-3 and a Killam Fellow in 1985-7; in 1989 he received the Canadian Association of Geographers Scholarly Distinction Award, and in the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was joint editor, with Alexei Istomin and V.A. Tishkov, of Rossiia v Kalifornii (Moscow 2005 and 2012). Alexei A. Istomin is Senior Research Associate of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He has a Candidate's degree in History at Moscow State University and is a specialist on the history and ethnography of Russian America and Latin America and the indigenes of North America. He was joint editor of Rossiia v Kalifornii (Moscow 2005 and 2012).