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"By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society"-OCLC
Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801472534
"By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society"-OCLC
Author : Aleksej Vladimirovič Postnikov
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9785988660163
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2007
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Author : Steven Seegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0226744256
The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe’s Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers’ regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices.
Author : Л. В Фролова
Publisher : Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Maps
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Author : Leo Bagrow
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9780969051428
Author : Leo Bagrow
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cartography
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Author : Steven Seegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0226744272
The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe’s Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers’ regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices.
Author : Katherine Bowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107073219
An essay collection that explores Russian literature and culture in relation to the late nineteenth-century fin de siècle.
Author : Daniel B. Rowland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501752103
God, Tsar, and People brings together in one volume essays written over a period of fifty years, using a wide variety of evidence—texts, icons, architecture, and ritual—to reveal how early modern Russians (1450–1700) imagined their rapidly changing political world. This volume presents a more nuanced picture of Russian political thought during the two centuries before Peter the Great came to power than is typically available. The state was expanding at a dizzying rate, and atop Russia's traditional political structure sat a ruler who supposedly reflected God's will. The problem facing Russians was that actual rulers seldom—or never—exhibited the required perfection. Daniel Rowland argues that this contradictory set of ideas was far less autocratic in both theory and practice than modern stereotypes would have us believe. In comparing and contrasting Russian history with that of Western European states, Rowland is also questioning the notion that Russia has always been, and always viewed itself as, an authoritarian country. God, Tsar, and People explores how the Russian state in this period kept its vast lands and diverse subjects united in a common view of a Christian polity, defending its long frontier against powerful enemies from the East and from the West.