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Stalin's collectivization of Soviet Russia's agriculture resulted in the deaths of at least ten million people through starvation and associated diseases between 1928 and 1934. Hungry and Starving explores primary accounts of the Great Soviet Famine on the part of both its perpetrators and its sufferers.

While previous studies have concentrated on the boom years of the fur trade before the War of 1812, James Gibson reveals how the maritime fur trade persisted into the 1840s. He explores Russian, British, Spanish, and American participation in the Northwest traffic, and describes the market in South China, outlining the evolution of the coast trade.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Prologue: Opening the Oregon Country -- PART ONE: Post Farming: Hudson's Bay Company Agriculture This Side The Mountains -- 1. Governor Simpson's Œconomy: The Origins of Post Farming -- 2. Governor Simpson's Reward: The Results of Post Farming -- 3. Physical Extremes: The Problems of Post Farming -- PART TWO: Company Farming: Puget's Sound Agricultural Company Operations On The Cowlitz Portage -- 4. Grain for Alaska and Wool for England: The Origins of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company -- 5. Success and Failure: The Performance of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company -- 6. Half Shares and Mean Lands: The Problems of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company -- PART THREE: Homestead Farming: Pioneer Agriculture In The Willamette Valley -- 7. The Promised Land: The Formation of The Willamette Settlement -- 8. The "Garden of the Columbia": The Success of Homestead Farming -- PART FOUR: Mission Farming: Protestant and Catholic Husbandry on the Lower Columbia -- 9. The "Macedonian Cry": The Advent of Missionaries -- 10. The Fruit of the Faithful: The Outcome of Mission Farming -- 11. Divine Testing or Demonic Tempting: The Obstacles to Mission Farming -- 12. From Noble Savage to Sturdy Yeoman: Indian Farming -- Epilogue: Dividing the Oregon Country -- Abbreviations -- Sources for Tables -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Perspective and Context -- 1 Historical Background: Occupation and Exploitation of the Russian Far East -- 2 Geographical Background: Physical and Cultural Setting of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula -- 3 The Problem of Provisionment -- PART II. Overland-Oversea Provisionment -- 4 Introduction -- 5 Routes and Carriers -- 6 Performance -- 7 Transport Problems -- 8 Reactions -- PART III. Local Agriculture -- 9 Introduction -- 10 Agricultural Settlement -- 11 Production -- 12 Agricultural Problems -- 13 Reactions -- PART IV. Retrospect -- 14 Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Data provided by the U.S. Navy were analysed to examine differences in successful flight training completion between men and women and among minorities. Results indicated that there were not significant differences between men and women with regard to attrition; however differences in the non‐completion of flight training did exist among those of different racial backgrounds. Consistent with previous studies, white aviators were found to have consistently higher graduation rates than all other racial groups and Blacks were found to have significantly higher rates of attrition than Hispanic student aviators. Recommendations to seek greater understanding of these discrepancies, including the potential for unfair discrimination, are made.

This study was conducted to test the frequently made assertion that primary elections are divisive among party activists who participate in primary and subsequent general election campaigns. Analysis of data collected from 209 campaign workers personally identified by five candidates in two vigorously contested races for Congress in Iowa's First District indicated that the activists were an elite group on whom the primary had a divisive impact that was particularly notable among those who supported candidates who lost the primary. The alienation felt by many respondents who worked for losers in both parties adversely affected their general party support, voting, and the willingness to perform the many conventional activities necessary to a general election campaign, but it did not appear to have a substantial influence on the general election. Generally, those who defected were less experienced and less strongly identified with their parties than those who remained active. Moreover, most of the antagonism may be limited to the single general election; eighty per cent of all participants in the study expected to be as active or more active in future campaigns.