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Imperial Visions : Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 18401865.
Written from the perspective of both historical geography and intellectual history, Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalit of imperial Russia. The work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and ambivalent ideological relationshi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, 29.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Map of the Russian Far East (c. 1860); Introduction; 1 Early visions and divinations; 2 National identity and world mission; 3 The rediscovery of the Amur; 4 The push to the Pacific; Introduction; 5 Dreams of a Siberian Mississippi; 6 Civilizing a savage realm; 7 Poised on the Manchurian frontier; 8 The Amur and its discontents; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography.